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COSTUMES. 


\n arrow worked in gold on each lapel, russet boots, gray tights, gray curled wig, 
ugle, horn, and chain, bow, broad red hat with eagle plume. 

LESTER. (First dress, Act I.) Green velvet hunting frock, embroidered with 
old wreath of oak leaves, broad green velvet hat, turned up in front, and plume of 
eathers, russet boots, green tights, spear decked with ribbons, yataghan. (Second 
yi y, dress, Act I.) Short Flemish frock of green cloth, richly embroidered, breeches of 

; reen velvet, Spanish hat looped up in front, and sable plume, short Spanish sword 

Frith jewelled hilt, black high boots, disguise cloak, two ornamented pistols. 
a _ MARK. (First dress, Act I.) Brown jacket, petticoat trousers, colored shirt, 
cap, black shoes and buckles, colored stockings, dark curly wig. (Second dress, 
. Act II.) British naval uniform of the period, belt, with pistols and cutlass. 
OLD FISHERMAN. Canvas petticoat trousers, colored shirt, red cap, russet 
shoes and dark stockings, white wig. 
VANDERSPLOCKEN. Dutch jacket, full dark trunks, russet shoes and buckles, 
dark stockings, drab Dutch hat. 
SCHENCK, 2 
VARDER, Ibid. 
| SIX DUTCHMEN, § 


: TIME, 1694, 1699. 
: _ CORMAC. Gray hunting frock, embroidered with gold, wreath of oak leaves, with 
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HEMLOCK. Sailor’s long pea-jacket, sailor’s hat, petticoat trousers, red vest, 
igh black boots, colored shirt. 

TOURILL. Dark short full frock, broad belt with pistols or hand arquebuss, full 
} uff leather breeches buckled at knee, red cloth gaiters, high-quartered shoes with 
‘pointed toes and large buckles, cutlass and sheath, stockings, gray wig with straight 





4 ‘ ‘ocks, thick red mustache, large fur cap-with skull and cross-bones on it, colored 
‘ shirt. . 
i LAWRENCE. Long jacket, red flannel shirt, full buff leather breeches buckled at 


knee, red cloth gaiters, high-quartered shoes with pointed toes and large buckles, 
belt with cutlass knife, white stockings, red conical woollen cap, with skull and cross 
© pones on it (on the inside of cap silver arrow, the cap to be turned and used in third 
| ‘2 Act). ie 


fim «\EYAN, 
: 08 CARL, ‘ Precisely same as Lawrence. 
4 5 | PIRATES, 
| KENARD. White petticoat trousers, white shirt, black shoes and stockings, belt 


Lb and cutlass, sailor’s hat. 
| TEN ESQUIRES. Green and gray hunting frocks, embroidered with wreath of 
oak leaves in gold, an arrow worked on each lapel in silver, green and gray tights, 
4- broad flapping hats turned back in front, and black plumes, short hunting spear, 
_- each decked with the ribbons of his lady, russet boots. . 
° “PAGES. Embroidered velvet frocks, silk tights, black shoes and rosettes, scarfs, 


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} = hat and feathers. 
( © (SIX FISHERMEN. Similar to Old Fisherman. 
\  & @WELVE ENGLISH SAILORS. Same style as Kenard. 
: 0 /CUSHA. An African deformed. Dark kelt, cape of snakes’ skins and owls? 
wis feathers to go over shoulders, dark skin shirt, a string of newts’ eyes and serpents’ 
1 fangs fo go round neck. Bracelets of silver on ankles and wrists, thick fringe of hair, 
¥ shaggy and grizzly, and wholly bald. 
COUNTESS. Laced jacket of royal purple, white train dress, coronet of pearls. 
KATE. (First dress, Act I.) Velvet jacket laced over a stomacher of rich bril- 
liants, long white train looped on left side, dark ruby velvet hat ornamented with a 
plume of white ostrich feathers, brace of thick fawn’s leather on the bow arm, shoot- 
ing gloves with three finger stalls, fitted with a strap and button to fasten at the wrist, 
ad) small pouch of tortoise shell, with four arrows on R. side. (Second dress, Act II.) 


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a ae “COSTUMES. — 


White flowing evening dress of the times. (Drive dress, Act III.) Laced 
white straw hat and feathers, gloves. 

“GRACE. Dark ruby velvet hunting jacket laced over a stomacher of rich b: ‘illia, 
long white train looped on left side, velvet hat of ruby, and plume of white feath 
brace of fawn leather, small pouch of arrows on right side, and bow decked y 
ribbons of ruby color. (Second dress, second Scene, Act I.) Disguise cloak : 
hood over first dress, no hat, and feathers. (Third dress, Acts III. and IV.) E 


ELPSY. Hunchbacked. Slate-colored gown, short scarlet cloak and hood 
bright red wig, turban of silk, cinettire of beads around the turban, black shoes, 
white staff, carved with mystic figures. (Second dress, fifth Scene, Act II.) Bs 
gown with mystic characters on it, turban with serpent entwined around it, a serpen’, — 
around waist, serpent on each arm. Say 
Ny OST STOLL. Black body, short. petticoats, apron, iis Dutch pe Baa. 
‘shoes. 

DUTCH GIRTS. Same style as Jost Stoll. 

TEN ARCHERESSES. Green, orange, and blue’ velvet, laced a i 
‘white trains, loopéd up on left side, fawn braces on arms 
right side, shooting gloves, bows deekea with ribbons, ‘has th eh ais rs sar 
‘looped up in front and ornamented With white feathers. 


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obtained on ep earsaretr> to the Publisher of the Drie, oe I to CoM Bet 
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AOT I.—THE CAUSE. 


(TIME, 1694.] 


a There ’s many a man who oft has heard 
mt The name of Robert Kyd ; 
N. Who cannot tell perhaps a word 
Of him, or what he did. 
So, though I never saw the man, 
And lived not in his day, 
‘ Ill tell you how his guilt began ; 
| : To what it led the way. 





SCENE I. — Field of Archery and View of Castle Cor. Set rock 
pieces,R.and Lu. Ground pieces, large trap, open, C., and step to de- 
scend. Set pavilion, R. H.,15., with acrimson banner displaying the 
arms of Bellamont —boar’s head and crest pierced through with 

a an arrow. Set pavilion, L. H., 4 £., with a white banner, on it a 
how, quiver, and target. Set throne and canopy, B. u., 8.8., with 
seats on tt. Set target, with trick arrows, L. H. E. Male and fe- 
male peasant, ladies of the court, pages, esquires, grouped about 
_ the stage. CountEss on throne. 2 pages, R. and t. of throne. As 
curtain rises to symphony of chorus, all advance but CounTESS and 

pages, on t.of c. Cormac discovered, L. H. 


, CHORUS. 


O, bold Robin Hood 

Was a forester good, 

As ever drew bow in the merry green wood ; 
And what eye hath ere seen 
7 . Such a sweet maiden queen, 
\ As Marion the pride of the forester’s green. 


[.Music.] 


LESTER comes down with Grace, and meets Kats of Bellamont, whe 
enters from RB. H. pavilion, with bow and arrows. Esqutres ana 
| Ladies retire up a little, tu. u., and some on R. H. CORMAC gels R. © 


_ Grace. (u. H.) Now for my shot! 
_ Kate. (R.,c.) Now, cousin Grace, do be steady ; you will shoot my 
- esquire through the heart, if you hold your bow so carelessly. 


6 CAPTAIN KYD, OR THE WIZARD OF THE SEA. 


Grace. And then you would shoot me through the head in return, 
Idare say. (GRACE fires.) 
Cormac. (Rx. H., 2 E.) Through the target. 


Kate. You have won the silver arrow, cousin Grace. Lord Robert, 


I wonder if that was the arrow you chose for Lady Grace —a taper 
both ways? ; 

Cormac. (To Grace.) Now, lady, shoot as I taught you. 

[Grace takes the stand and fires. All shout.] 

Grace. ’Tis Cormac’s shot, not mine ; I am satisfied with my own. 

Cormac. (Crosses L. H.) Let the queen decide. 

Omnes. Ay, the queen decide ! 

Countess. Grace is right. Cormac’s skill directed the shot. The 
banner she is justly entitled to. I here award it to her. 

Grace. And if [ever get a husband, he shall carry it before him 
into battle. Now, divine Kate, don’t wound my arrow ; I would not 
have it injured for a silver one. 

Kate. It tapers from the middle in each direction, no doubt. 

Grace. Your speech tapers in both directions, wild Kate. 

Kate. Now for my shot. [Preparing to shoot. ] 

Grace. Why, Kate, you are holding your bow with the short limb 
uppermost. 

Kate. SoIam. 

Grace. Cousin Kate, you are going to shoot with the feather towards 
the target. What have you and Lester been about? 

Kate. Now, cousin. 

[Music. Takes a bold stand and fires. All shout.] 

Cormac. (R. H.) Well done. 

Kate. (x. 0.) It was my choice ; a taper from the pile. . 

Lester. (R.) It was not a fair trial, Kate ; as you drew your bow, 
there was not a breath of air. 

Kate. Now, Cormac,-I have two shots more. Here is the arrow. 
I?ll do my best to drive it through my cousin’s. 

Grace. (u. c.) I dare say you will if you can, and would like also 
to destroy everything else Lord Robert gives me. 


[Music. Kare takes stand, aims and fires up at a hawk, who falls 
into an open trap, C., with the arrow through it. | 


Kate. There is a prize for you, Cormac, better than a golden arrow, 
and when next I go a hawking I will be sure to use arrows that taper 
from the feather. 


[Lester and all on the stage go up and look over the chasm where the 
bird has fallen.) 


Lester. The bird has lodged upon a tree. The fisher lad is endeay- 
oring to secure him. 

Kate. I hope he will not endanger his life. 

Countess. (Rising and. advancing with Katz, &c.) Victorious 
archeress, receive this token of thy matchless skill. May you in every 
other female accomplishment be as successful as in archery. 

Grace. She will be a match for poor little Cupid, with his tiny bow 
and arrow, I dare say. Poor youth! I pity him if he’s like to have 
such a hole made in his heart as Kate has made in yonder target. ~ 


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| Music. Countess rises, embraces Katy, and goes off, L. H., U. E., fol- 
lowed by two pages. Grace forces Kate into the seat.] 


Kate. Come, my esquire, kneel. (Lester kneels. Karte fastens 
the arrow in his hat.) Wear you this silver arrow in memory of the 
field of archery at Castle Cor. 

[Shouts. Old man and fisherman enter in haste, R. H.] 

Old Man. My boy Mark will lose his life for the bird. The step 
is seventy feet to where the bird hangs! Save my boy, O save him ! 

Lester. (t. H.) By heavens, a bold peasant! Go and lend him as- 
sistance from the bank below. 

‘ate. And mind, betray no sign of fear, or you may startle him. 
He isin mortal danger. Cormac, fly to his assistance ! 


[Cormac, Peasants, male and female, Ladies and Esquire, exit down 
trap, ©.) . 


Lester. By Cupid’s bow, I would change places with this serf, to 
know I created such interest in your breast, fair lady. 

Kate. Robert Lester must have fallen low in his own self-esteem to 
be jealous of a fisher lad. 

Lester. I will save him in spite, or share his fate, 

[Exit down trap, ¢., hastily.] 

Grace. (Up stage.) Already is he near him? ‘The fisher boy 
is in conflict with the wounded bird. Heaven preserve him ; he has 
taken the leap ! 

Kate. Does Lord Robert follow? He can scarcely keep his footing ! 
Make a ladder, boys, *twill reach him. OQ, he is in the crag — he is 
safe ! [Lester enters sullenly up the trap, goes down, L. i.] 

Lester. He dares to place his thoughts on her ! 

[Kate advances, meets LestER, and embraces him.] 

Kale. (Rn. u.) Lester, is he not a noble youth? [Goes up stage.] 

Lester. (tu. c.) Noble! he will be princely next ! 

Grace. (Coming down, t. H.) Well, Robert! Nay, don’t look so 
fierce. I'am not going to follow Kate’s generous example. I dare 
say you would go down that horrid bank again for another such a 
hug as cousin Kate gave you. 

Lester. (Rr. c.) I will go down and take the leap into the sea for . 
another such reception, coming from Grace Fitzgerald. 

Grace. And do you think I would come near such a dripping mon- 
ster as you would make of yourself! Iam no naiad, to fancy a man 
coming out of the sea. 

Lester. By which I infer, fair lady, that if I will go down and come 
up dry, you would give me such a welcome ! 

Grace. As Kate gave you? You are quite spoiled! Kate, come 
and take care of your lone cavalier, for he is no longer fit for any 
corapany but yours. (Goes up stage.) But here comes one I will 
welcome, dripping or dry. 


[Music. Marx enters from below with the bird. Gracr meets him, 
and they come down, L. H., GRACE L. ©. ] 


Grace. I will shake hands with you, Mark, but you deserve, hand- 
some as you are, to have your ears boxed. See what a to-do you have 
been the cause of, and all for that great black bird, which Kate must 


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8 CAPTAIN KYD, OR THE WIZARD OF THE SEA. 


shoot instead of sending her arrow to the target. You area noble 
young man, and I like you. Do you hear that, Kate? I have made 
a declaration? I mustn’t embrace you, for you are too wet. 

[Kare comes down, R. H., LESTER, R. C.] 

Lester. My brave Meredith, you deserve a better career than that 
before you. Henceforth let us 'be friends. 

Mark. (1, 0.) We may not be enemies ; but we never can be 
friends. Friendship between the high and low is but anothér name for 
Jependence to the latter. 

Lester. Well, have it your own way; you have pride enough for 
Lucifer. 

Mark. But not enough for a noble. 

[Lester retires up stage. | 

Kate. Meredith, you forget your station. Lord Robert is sincere, — 
and means well by you. 

Grace. (u. H.) Believe her, Mark. Nobody ought to know so well 
what Lord Robert means as my cousin Kate. - Ni 
Kate. (x. u.) Be silent, Grace. Mark, what will you do with the & 

bird? 

Mark. (Crosses, and kneels to Kate.) Gentle archeress! Deign 
to. accept. It is the only boon I crave for my peril. “I obtained it for 
thee at the risk of life and limb, so that I might do thee a service, and 
save what I know thou wilt be ‘proud to preserve in remembrance of 
this day! [Retires up.] 

Lester. (c.) By the cross ! a forward youth —an Alfred in disguise ! 

Grace. What handsome eyes, Kate ! ; 

Kate. Dangerous ones ! [Mark advances, R. H. C. 

Kate. Thanks, Mark, for the gift! Though, by right, it should be 
Cormac’s ; ’*t was hit with his own arrow. 


[Kate offers him her hand, which he kisses. Luster observing up. ( 
stage. } a 


Grace. (u. Cc.) Come, Mark, you must join us in the pavilion. I 
wish, Robert (RoBERT advances, L. H.), you would present Mark with 
one of your green hunting shirts. = 

Kate. (R. H., aside.) You’re perfectly crazy, Grace ! ' 

Grace. (Overhearing.) Am I? 

Lester. (t. H.) You are all beside yourselves. I have no doubt it 
would oblige you, Lady Grace, if I would exchange attire with your 4 
fishy favorite ! 2 

Grace. Really, I wish you would. You would make a good sort of . 
a fisherman — save a spice of pride or so—that would hardly suit ; 
your station. rt 

Lester. Pride in a peasant is impertinence. But I do see it doth ¥ 
recommend.its possessor most particularly to the favor of noble ladies, 

Kate. Tadvise you, then, Lester, when you chance to fall in their . 
good graces, that you renew your suit ina fisher garb. Believe me, 
it will assuredly restore you to favor. 

Lester. I have no hesitation in believing it. [Ladies laugh.] 

Kate. Come, Mark, to the pavilion. 


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[Mark takes Kare’s hand, and is yoing up stage, when Lesrer slops 


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CAPTAIN KYD, OR THE WIZARD OF THE SEA. 9 


him. Marx returns down,r. u. Esquires, Ladies, and Peasants 
reenter up trap. ] 


Lester. Peasant, if you betake not yourself speedily away to your 
hovel, I will hurl you with mine own hand from the cliff upon its 
roof. 

Mark. (x. Hu.) Iam not thy serf, Lord Robert. 

Lester. Brave words to come from beneath a homespun. jerkin 1— 
Slave! villain! (Music. Luster is proceeding towards him.) I?ll 
strangle thee. {Lester crosses to R. C.] 

Mark. (x. H.) In my own defence I strike ! 

[ Music. Aims a blow which staggers LestER to L. H., where find- 
ing his spear, he seizes it, rushes upon Marx, is going to strike him 
down, when Karr and Grace interpose. Tableau.] 

Kate. (x. 0.) Robert Lester, by that act you have forfeited all that 
belongs to you as a noble gentleman — also all that connects you with 
any person here present. 

Lester. (Kneeling.) Pardon me, lady. 

Kate. Never! Robert Lester! Touch me not! leave me! Your 
presence will mar all joy ! 

Lester. Lady — 

Kate. Silence! assassin ! 

Lester. (Starting to his feet.) Ha! this to me, and for that peas- 
ant slave ! 

Mark. Lady, t — 

Kate. Mark— Robert Lester, you have degraded yourself lower 
than the meanest peasant. Mark shall take your place ; be you my 
esquire. [ Gives Marx her hand. 

Lester. This is too much to bear calmly. I will be revenged ! 

[ Crossing to the L. H. corner.] 

Grace. (c.) Mercy, what a look! I wonder I ever had the courage 
to coquette with such a terrible creature ! 

Kate. (BR. 0.) Come to the pavilion. 
ace (z. 0.) Whatalook! It reminds me of Hurtil of the Red 

and. 

[Music. Peasants, Ladies, Esquires, &c. Exit t. 0. BE. MARK 
takes Katn’s hand, and follows, L. v. 8.3 when he get at wing he turns 
and looks at Luster, and exits, all off.) 

Lester. And is this the end of my wooing? For a slave, and I 
the lord of Castle More? Thus insulted, disgraced, and struck !—a 
blow from the vile hand of a base-born hind !—TI will be revenged ! 
(Eupsy enters t.,2 5. Lester eh and sees her.) Curses light on 
thee, hag! Stand out of my way! [Crossing L. H.] 

Elpsy. (Rn. c.) Robert Lester, thou hast been crossed in thy will, 
and art out oftemper. Dost wish revenge? 

Lester. Woman! avaunt! Iwant none ofthy counsel! From my 
path, or I will strike thee down ! 

[He attempts to strike her with his knife. She seizes his hand.] 

_ £Elpsy. Ha! ha! Robert More, thou art defeated! Ha! ha! 
Lester, Release me, or I’ll sheath this blade in thy heart! (She 

lets him go.) Now, leave the path, or, ere I will be bearded thus, I 

will command my retainers from my lands to hurl thee into the sea. 

Elpsy. Thy lands! thy retainers! Ha! ha! ha! Robert 


10 CAPTAIN KYD, OR THE WIZARD OF THE SEA. 


More, I have a punishment for thee in store! Haye I not a cup for 
thee to drink? 

Lester. What mean these dark words? 

Elpsy. Dark! Yes, they are dark now. But I can make them 
clear as the sun at noon. Wouldst thou.know what I have to reveal ? 

Lester. Beware ! If thou art working on my fears, I will pluck thy 
tongue from thy throat, and fling it to my hounds. If thou hast trifled 
with me — 

Elpsy. What Ill tell thee will be so true thou wilt indeed wish 
the tongue that spoke it had been plucked from its roots ere it had 
given it utterance. 

Lester. Elpsy, I will believe thou hast something to make known 
of good or ill. I will listen, mother. 

Elpsy. Robert More, those words have touched my heart, — 
for even Elpsy has a heart. As the minister of the invisible world, I 
must do as [am commanded. Robert More, if you can bear what I 
am doomed to tell, follow me. 

Lester. Avoid thee! I willnot go! Thy abode is no place for the 
Lord of Lester. [Crossing L. H.] 

Elpsy. Lord Lester, I will not ask twice! Open thine eyes, Lord 
Lester, and drink in the title and the style well ; for ’t will be the last 
time they will fall upon thee. 

Lester. Cease your mocking, woman! Say what you have to say, 
and quickly ! 

Elpsy. I will begin. Eighteen years ago, not far hence, on the sea 
shore, dwelt a fisherman. He had an only child. Her hair was. soft 
as the floss of Florence ; her eyes — 

Lester. What is the end of a tale that thus begins, to me? 

Elpsy. Much! This maiden saved the life of a mariner, who in a 
storm was wrecked before her door. He swore for his life-preserver he ' 
would give his life and love. She believed — he betrayed her. 

Lester. What is thisto me? Who did the maiden wrong? } 

Elpsy. Hurtle of the Red Hand, who, returning from a ravening 
enterprise, had taken prisoner the Lady of Lester. The noble lady 
gave birth to a son in Hurtel’s Tower, —two mothers and two babes ! 
The children were changed. The lady’s child was thrown among the 
rocks to die,— Hurtel by its mother saved. When the lord returned, 
he kissed the babe as if it had been his own, and took it home. Dost 
dream, Lord of Lester ? 

Lester. And this infant — this low-born boy — grew up within the 
halls of castle More as its liege lord? 

Elpsy. Tt did. 

Lester. And that boy stands before you? 

Elpsy. He does. 

Lester. Who knows this hellish secret besides thyself? 

Elpsy. None but thee. 

Lester. You will swear to this, and swear also the fisher-boy knows 
not of his birth? 

Elpsy. I do. 

Lester. Then with thy hellish secret die ! 

[ Crossing R. u., aims a blow at Expsy, which she avoids. ] 

Elpsy. (1. 1.) Ha! ha! Lord of Lester that was ! would you know 


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CAPTAIN KYD, OR THE WIZARD OF THE SEA. 11 


more? Ask the dark lady of the rock, who most thy face resembles. 
Speak in her ear the name of Hurtle of the Red Hand! Follow me 
not ! [£zit, L. H., 2 B.] 
Lester. AmI dreaming? No! Often have I heard by peasants, 
that I had wronged, that I am bastard! *Tis true, ’tis true! 
True? No! ’tis false! J will be Lord of Lester! Ere I lose my 
name, perish honor, truth, and life! When goes the name of Lester’s 
Earl from me, the power of vengeance in heaven or hell shall find 
me ready, with a new name, to do such deeds as fiends would quail at ! 
The next moment decides my fate, if the witch speaks true! Mark, 
the fisher-boy, beware the bastard Robert — the outlaw’s son ! 
[E£xit, u. E.] 


SCENE Il.— Sea-shore. First grooves. Half dark. 
Enter Mark, t. H., 1 £. 


Mark. This day shall end my servitude to poverty! Havel nots 
soul, a mind? May I not, in spite of nature, yet become the builder 
of my own name? I dare to love, and love high. Will she requite 
the daring love of a peasant? No; she must mate with her mates, 


- and she would bid me mate with mine! I may rise. Shall I stand 


idle here, and see the haughty Lester bear away a prize of which he is 
no more worthy thanI? I will perish first. The sea on which I have 
been cradled is open before me, like a mother’s bosom, welcoming me 
to its embrace ; and on it I will win a name that shall hide the one I 
wear, and lay it at the feet of her who would scorn me. 


Enter Old Man, 8. H., 15, 


Old Man. Mark? 

Mark. Well. 

Old Man. Do you know who speaks to you, boy? 

Mark. Yes, Ido, my good father. Forgive me. 

Old Man. Thou wilt not go away? 

Mark. To leave thee to want ?— never! 

Old Man. Bless thee, Mark! bless thee! I will secure the boat, 
and go into the cabin. Follow me. [Exit Old Man,t. u.] 
_ Mark. This is my world, these rocks, this lonely bay — yonder hut 
my palace—to fish for daily sustenance my pastime. The world 
was made for others, not forme! MustI endure this? Filial love, 
filial gratitude, how bitter are ye! (He stands lost in thought. 
Enter Grace, x., 1 &., in hood and cloak, touching his shoulder. 
Mark turns to her, taking off his cap.) Lady, seek you aught in 
which I can aid you, that you have come to the sea-side in this lonely 
hour ? 

Grace. My business is with you alone, Mark. 

Mark. Lady Grace ! 

Grace. Grace Fitzgerald in body and spirit. 

Mark. Can the high-born heiress of the Earl Fitzgerald be served 
by one so humble? 

Grace. I have not come to command your service, but to beg a favor 
of you. 


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Mark. Command me, lady. 

Grace. Are you angry with Lord Robert? 

Mark. Can I forgive him? 

Grace. But you will forgive him for the sake of my cousin Kate ? 

Mark. If she was to bid me kiss his hand I would not refuse 
her. 


Grace. It is her wish that you should bear this token of her forgive-_ 


ness to Lord Robert. You see itis tied with a braid of her own hair. 
[ Gives locket to Marx. ] 

Mark. Bear this from her to him? . 

Grace. Yes. 

Mark. Never ! 

Grace. Mark ! 

Mark. Pardon me ; but you know what it is to be—. 

Grace. Mark, I pity you from my heart. Bear this packet to 
Lord Robert. Deliver it into his own hand, and leave him immedi- 
ately. In the morning come to the castle. I will speak to the Earl to 
do thee good. 

Mark. Dear lady, I will leave this message for him at Castle More; 
but, pardon me, lady, if I decline your offer to serve me. 

Grace. Then cousin Kate shall make it. 

Mark. It will be more firmly declined. 

Grace. You mean you dislike my cousin Kate so much that you 
will not receive any favor at her hands? 

Mark. such could be inferred from my words, I recall every letter 
of them. 

Grace. Then you will receive no favor from me, cousin Kate, or 
her father ? 

- Mark. Lady, the memory of your words will shine like a star of 


hope to guide me through the future. For your sake I will achieve 


whatever man can accomplish. 

Grace. Will you do nothing for my cousin Kate? 

Mark. There is little hope that one so humble is ever in her 
thoughts. 

Grace. Little hope, I fear, while Lester lives. Think not now of 
her ; think not of love now, but let honor be your idol. Woo fame as 
your bride.. There is one, Mark, who would rather see you ennobled 
by your own hand than — no matter —I promised Kate you would do 
my bidding. I have said too much. Fly with the message, if you 
would do my cousin Kate a favor, and if you would value my — that 
is your own good, — get into no quarrel. 

Mark. I promise you, lady, I will work out for myself bright 
fortunes, or I will not live on the earth where I must be inferior to 
my fellow-men. (Cross r.u.) Come, lady, I will attend you to the 
path. [Lait x. u., 12] 


CAPTAIN KYD, OR THE WIZARD OF THE SEA. 18 


SCENE II. — Interior of the ruined Tower of Hurtel of the Red 
Hand. Large window, 0., through which ts seen the sea (moon- 
light). Balcony crossing behind window, 3 @. Music. Enter 
Evpsy, L. H., 2 E., with a wand, cautiously, as if watching some one; 
crosses and exits, R. H., 25. Lester enters, L., 2B. 


Lester. “IT was my fancy, then. No matter. ’T is true I am base- 
born and vile! Ha! this must be the tower of Hurtel of the Red 
Hand. I will take possession of my father’s towers, with the inherit- 
ance of his name. 

Elpsy. (Without.) Ha! ha! ha! 

Lester. Was it a human voice, or that of some vile imp? Laugh 
on, ye demons, laugh on ! laugh’on! 

Elpsy. (Enter x., 2 .) Robert of Lester, welcome to the room 
which first welcomed thee to light. Where you now stand was the deed 
done — the child was thrown — the Lord of Lester ! 

Lesier. Why are you here, wicked woman ? 

Elpsy. I fled, lest thou shouldst do a bloody deed — thy hand smite 
me. . 

Lester. You need not fear me now. There exists no longer a 
motive for your secrecy. 

Elpsy. Hast thou breathed to mortal ear what I told thee of thy 
birth? 

Lester. I have ; ’t is known to every servitor, from hall to stable. 

Elpsy. Then hell be thy portion! Accursed be thou, Robert Les- 
ter! The infernal demon has prompted thee to do this! Didst thou 
not seek to slay me, that thou mightest be the sole keeper of thy foul 
secret ? 

Lester. I did at the moment, but have thought better of it. 

Elpsy. Why was not my tongue withered ere I told thee this ? 

Lester. Why did you so? 

Elpsy. To lower thy pride. I did not think thou wouldst have used 
it thus. . 

Lester. Woman, who is my mother? 

Elpsy. I will not tell you. 

Lester. Are you? 

Elpsy. Ha! ha! ha! do I look like the gentle maiden that won 
the love of Hurtel of the Red Hand? Are these matted locks tresses of 
gold. Is my voice soft and musical? Are my eyes like those of the 
gazelle? Wilt thou acknowledge thyself the son of the witch before 
thee ? 

Lester. No; Tam not sunk so lowasthat! I defy you, woman, 

and all your arts. 
» Elpsy. Yet the tales of my deeds have made thy human soul shrink. 
What is thy business here? To take possession of thy father’s lands, and 
prepare the castle to receive its future mistress, the fair Kate of Bella- 
mont? 

Lester. Breathe that name again, woman, and I will take thy life! 

Elpsy. Thou art now thy very father’s image —a bold, bad man, 
who roved the Danish seas a buccaneer. Perhaps like him thou wilt take 
to the wave and earn thy fortune in blood. Look, the sea is spread 
wide before thee. (Pointing off through window, c.) It knows not of 


14 CAPTAIN KYD, OR TIE WIZARD OF THE SEA 


thy disgrace, nor has it a voice to whisper thy infamy ; while every — 


bird, tree, and stone, and everything on land, will seem to say, ‘* There 
goes he who was the Lord of Lester.”’ [ Pirate vessel is seen through 
window, crossing from L. tu R.] 

Lester. (&. H.) Woman, you madden me! 

Elpsy. (8. 8.) Look there, a ship to waft thee to thy fortune, far- 
away; *tis a brave bark ; see that flash of light upon her deck ! 

Lester. ’T is the glancing of the moonbeam on steel. Its business 
on the sea? 

Elpsy. To rob, pillage, and slay. 

Lester. Ha! a buccaneer. 

Elpsy. A Dane. 

Lester. ’T is but another name for pirate, in these waters. By the 
cross ! when I saw the glitter of steel in. the hands of its crew, I 
guessed it. 

Elpsy. Wilt thou now link thy fate with theirs? 

Lester. Am I not fit to be their comrade? WhatamI? Are they 
branded with shame? soamI. The presence of that ship points me 
to the course I should pursue. I obey the fate that has directed iv 
thither. 

Elpsy. Wilt thou become a pirate ? — yesterday Lord of Lester, to- 
day a pirate ! 

Lester. Yes! [Goes up and looks out of window, ¢.] 

Elpsy. Curse the tongue that told thee of thy birth! *T was pleas- 
ant to tell him he looked so like his father! (LesTER crosses to L. H., 
and is going off. Exuprsy stops him.) Stay, Robert, where wouldst 
thou go? 

Lester. The crew have landed ; they must know me. 

Elpsy. (8. H.) Wouldst thou run upon thy death? They would 
sheathe their cutlasses in thy heart. I guess their business. 

Lester. What? 

Elpsy. °®T was rumored Hurtel had secreted large sums of silver 
and gold for treasonable purposes. These buccaneers are doubtless ac- 
quainted with the secret. 

Lester. Who told you this? 

Elpsy. Rumor, said I not ? 

Lester. My father’s treasure I will guard. Woman, if they are my 
father’s friends who come, they must be mine. 


[Jfusic. Enpsy retires, R.,2£. Lester goes up to balcony, observes 
the movements of the pirates, then retires, R., 2E. Pause. TURILL 
appears at balcony, C., comes down, then goes to balcony ; beckons 
on Evans and Caru from balcony.) 


Turill. This is the very spot; now to find the trap. Open your 
lantern, Carl. I hope Hurtel’s ghost will not be guarding the box. 
Let me see — four paces from the wall, then turn east — that ’s it ! 

Lester. (Appears, R., 3 E., and stands on trap.) Forbear ! 

[Carn and Evans run to baleony.] 

Turill. The ghost of Hurtel, by all that’s good ! Come back, 
Evans! Carl, give me that lantern — cowards ! (CARL comes down, 
and gives lantern to TURILL, who opens tt and looks at Lrsvsr.) Com- 
rade, you have grown young in the other world ; there is no mistak- 


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CAPTAIN KYD, OR THE WIZARD OF THE SEA. 15 


ing the cut of your eye ; so suppose we shake hands, and, after we get 
the chest on board, we “ll empty a can and spin a yarn before the cock 
crows. Never mind if your hands are cold. (Shakes hands.) Warm, 
by the bones of St. Nick! I’m sorry for you, but I must have the 
guilders. Just step off the slab till we get the box out. 
Lester. Lam no spirit, but a habitant of this world. I would take 
service with you and follow your fortunes on the sea. 
Turill. That alters the case ; but what are you doing here, just on 
that stone, guarding Hurtel’s treasures? Who are you? 
Lester. His son! 
Turill. The devil! Iremember your hatching. I suppose, then, 
you claim the gold? 
Lester. No ; I would follow your fortune. 
Turill. Do you know what fortune I follow? 
‘Lester. Icare not, so there is work for a free hand and a ready 
spirit. 

i Turill. A chip of the old block. There’s my hand to it ; you shall 
go with me for your father’s sake. Why, you are like him as one 
marlinspike is to another. (Lxsrer crosses to t. H.) Come, bear a 
hand, boys, to hold up the edge of the stone. (Carn and Evans go to 
the trap, and try to open the slide,R.,38 E.) Stop, I forgot the spring. 
(Music. He touches the spring, and opens it slowly. Opens the lid 
of the box, and takes out.) Here it is, and his dagger too. 

Lester. Let me see that weapon. 

[TuriLL gives Lester the weapon. ]} 

Turill. That belonged to Hurtel of the Red Hand ; it shall be 
thine, young man. Holding it with that grasp, as you do now, in the 
flash of that kindling eye, I would swear my old comrade stood before 
me. Keep it for your father’s sake ; he knew its use, and if you are 
long under me — 

Lester. Under you ! — 

Turill. Ha! I like that. Better men than I will soon be under 
you! Heave away, boys; carry it to the boat. 


[Music. Carnuand Evans lift the box from trap with the assistance 
of TuriLL, and take it off through ¢.] 


Turill. Hallo, there, men! Obey this young man ; he is my first 
lieutenant. (LesTeR goes off through o., 'TuRILL is going off at c., 
when Expsy enters, R. H., and stops him.) Who art thou? (1. 0.) 

Elpsy. (Rr. u.) I would speak to thee, Edmund Turill. 

Turill. How knowest thou me? 

Elpsy. It matters not. That youth goes with thee? 

Turill, Hedoes. 

Elpsy. See that he receive no ill from thy hands. Swear it, or, if 
thou dost not, thou shalt feel my power! Wouldst thou have fair 
winds, I will make them foul ; wouldst thou have a smooth sea, I will 
make it boil and hiss ; wilt say a prayer, I will turn it to a curse ! 

Turill. Avaunt, sorceress! Ho there! my men. (Music. All 
the pirates rush on from c. and down t. H.) Cut her down! (The 
pirates draw their cutlasses, and are rushing towards Exrsy as Les- 
TER rushes on from C., and interposes. ) ‘ 

Lester. Stay ! witch, fiend, as she is, harm her not! 


16 CAPTAIN KYD, OR THE WIZARD OF THE SEA. 


Elpsy. I do not thank Robert More. (Crosses to TuritL.) Know 
me. (Whispers to him.) 

Turill. (a. 0.) Thou! 

Elpsy. (c.) Ay, I am, indeed. I have work to do ere morning ! 
Farewell ! Robert Lester, thou shalt be captain of these men. The world 
shall tremble at thy name. (Goesupc. Yo Turin.) Remember! 
(He shrinks back from her gaze. She exits ©.) 

Turill. Shout, men, for Robert, son of Hurtel of the Red Hand ! 
Give the old castle a merry farewell. then to sea, and a fair wind to 
the buccaneer. [Zhe pirates give three cheers. | 

Lester. Show me your bark. Would you have a chief who fears 


neither hell here nor hereafter, he stands before you. Your black — 


flag shall be my banner. Men shall know me as the Sea King, son 
of Hurtel of the Red Hand. I will win such a name, that, be my 
father in heaven or hell, he shall own me as blood of his blood, bone 
of his bone, flesh of his flesh. The witch has rightly spoken. My 
mother that I have loved is not my mother! The maiden that was to 
be my bride is not my bride! I am wedded now to deeds of darkness. 
Through life I wade in blood! Come on board ! 


[ Music. Lawrence and Cart, with six other pirates, cross behind to 
R. H. very quick. Lorr, EVANs, and six pirates ont. H. TURILL 
L. 0. Luster R. H. ofc. A pirate at back, c., with a black flag 
with death’s-head and cross-bones on either side. 7 


FINALE. 


Huzza ! huzza! three cheers, 
A brother joins our crew 3 
Companion and leader, we bow, we bow to you, 
Your word be our law 
On sea or on shore ; 
We be true as we are free buccaneers. 
The black flag we’Il wave 
(Pirate waves jfiag at back.) 
O’er us, rovers free ; 
To the son of the Red Hand 
Three cheers ; 
The oath, the oath, by us, till death to stand — 


[Music changes. Lester asks of Turttu if he must swear. ‘TURILL, 
in action, says Yes. Luster shrinks with terror from him. All 
the pirates draw their cutlasses, and point them towards LESTER, 


who is inc. Lester comes forward, takes off his cap, kneels, 
draws his sword; at the finish of the music, swears, drops his — 


sword. ] 
FINALE, continued. 


Then hail, O Kyd, on sea or on land! 


[ When the chorus begins again Kyp rises, puts on his cap, goes up 
stage in G. The pirates sheathe their swords, then take off their 
caps, wave them, put them on again, then all join hands together, 
Kyp and Turitt in 0., as far up as 3 &., forming half-moon. Kyp 
takes R.H. corner. TUuRILL throws the black flag towards him. Kyp 
catches it, picks up his sword, and goes up stage. Turtnnand Kyp 
at c., Kyp pointing with his sword to the black flag. The other 
pirates form the half-circle. Ring down as finuale.] 

Env or Act I. 


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ACGTe bly —T HE «DEER 6-4. 


(TIME, 1699.] 


»*T was in the Third King William’s time, 
i ‘ When many a pirate bold 
Committed on the seas the crime 
Of shedding blood for gold. 


My name is Captain Kyd, as I sailed, as I sailed, 
My name is Captain Kyd, 

And so wickedly I did, 
All laws I did forbid, as I sailed. 


SCENE I.— New York Bay. Onthes. u. a set Dutch house, being 
the public house kept by Jost SroLu; across the stage a parapet 
with cannon. Long benches on L. H. VANDERSPLOCKEN, VANDER, 

(ScHENCK, with other Dutchmen and citizens, are discovered smok- 
ing. Time about sunset. (Music.) 


Omnes. Ha! ha! ha! ha! 

Vandersplocken. Well, Mynheer, tell us more about this Kyd. He. 
is der tyfil!  Vare is the Yankee captain, Mynheer Hemlock, dat is to 
put us under guard ? 

Schenck. It is all de nonsense to send de ship to catch de Kyd! I 
believe de buccaneer has taken de king’s ship, instead of de king’s 
ship take de buccaneer. The dlack rogue will blow up his ship first. 

Vander. Ishe black, den? 

Schenck. Not in de face, put in de heart. I met him once. 

Omnes. Tell us of dat time, Schenck. 

Schenck. We vas both of us in Long Island Sound, he won side, I 
yas te ’toder. I see his craft, vith fifty men, putting in a spar. 
vas looking, and by and by a handsome young man touch me on the 
shoulder. Says he, ‘‘ How do you do? You like my craft?’’ Says I, 
‘© Vat is the name of de craft??? Says he, ‘* Come on board ; ’’ and 
I did. Say he, ‘* De Silver Arrow.”’ 

Vander. Vell, vat come den? ; 

Schenck. He offered me some gin. Says he, ‘‘ Skipper, fill! I give 
you a toast. Here’s the health of Kyd.’? Says I, ‘Never! I’d 
drink the tyfle’s health first.’’ 

Omnes. Vell, vot next? 

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Schenck. His eyes flashed like a cat’s. He seized his pistols; den he 


laugh, and said, ** Drink my health.’? And I did, and it vas very good — 


gin, I tell you. 

Omnes. Vell, vot next? 

» Schenck. Den says he, ‘‘ Jam Kyd;’’ and sent his men to help me 
put in my bowsprit, and give me this silver arrow. (Showing it.)  . 

Vander. Dat is very good. ‘* Respect the sign — Kyd.”? Very good, 
very strange. 

Schenck. He has saved my cargo. Here comes Frau Stoll. (Enter 
Frau Sront from house, u. H.) Donder and blitzens, I don’t believe he 
is a fool. 

Stoll. What! Kyd? Didn’t he eata lady’s heart? 


a 
Enter Hemuocgr, from house down R. ¢. 


Hemlock. No; if he did I’m a Dutchman, by Judas! 
Schenck. Vat is Dutchman? 


[411 the Dutchmen rise and seize Hemtock. Just Sroxu interposes. } 


Stoll. (0.) Don’t quarrel —don’t quarrel ! 
[The Dutchmen and citizens get L. H.] 
Hemlock. (x. c.) Don’t quarrel with me: I’m captain of the 
watch-guard, and I command you all to fall in. 
Stoll. Stop, Mr. Hemlock ; they were speaking of Kyd. He’s a 
devil. The last time he was here he got evil charms from the witch 
of Hell Gate. 


Hemlock. Now, as your commanding officer, I could order you to 


fall in, and fine you for disobedience of orders, if you didn’t obey ; but 

before you begin to®train, if you want to know anything about Kyd, I 

guess I can give you a wrinkle on that point. 
Stoll. Come, Mr. Hemlock, let us hear it. Bring down the benches. 


[Dutchmen bring them down. All seat themselves. HEMLOCK, 0.] 


Hemlock. Well, get the beer ready, and then my story. (JosT 


STOLL goes into the house and returns with a jug of beer, and gives tt to 
Hemiock.) Then we ’ll fix the watch for to-night. Are your guns 
ready ? e 

Omnes. Yes, all ready. 


Hemlock. I commanded the Lovely N ancy ; and I was pushing her 


through the gate as hard as I could, one night. All at once the tide 
turned, and, as I came to an anchor ’longside the hut of the witch, I 
felt kind o’ neighborly ; and then I didn’t know who lived there. 
And I thought I would go and scrape acquaintance with somebody. 
Pretty soon I began to smell brimstone eternally strong, by Judas! I 
looked in, and I saw the old witch and Captain Kyd—as I found out 
afterwards — going through the most pokerish acting hellifications 
you ever hearn tell on. 7I'wasa sin to death what I seed. Big devils 
and little ones, he-goblins and she-hobgoblins. I thought the world 
was coming toan end. It lifted me right. out of my boots, and my 


hat stood right on top of three hairs, clear up on end, just like a cat’s- 
back when she is wrathy. As soon as I could, I started, and if I did ~ 


not show them some pretty tall walking, why, my legs an’t good at 


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CAPTAIN KYD, OR THE WIZARD OF THE SEA. 19 


£ 

it. I expected nothing would be left of me but my eyebrows and 
shirt-collar, by Judas ! 

Schenck. She is one witch woman — she should be burnt alive. 
- Hemlock. I know how to cure a witch. I did not live in Salem 
town for nothing, I guess. But come, Jost Stoll, let the gals bring out 
the guns, and then fall in for exercise and order. 

Jost Stoll. Yes, the gals may come out and see you go through your 
exercise. [ Exit into house.] 

Hemlock. Now, citizens, the order is for every good man and true to 


be provided with a good fire-lock and six balls, and each to take his turn 


at the gate. Now, Vandersplocken, come, —all of you, —let’s get to 
work, and then we’ll go in and drink and smoke as much as you are 
a mind to. Bring out the guns, gals. (Girls enter from house with 
guns, which they give to the Dutchmen.) Now, gals, stand out of the 
way. (Girls crossto x. u.) We’ll have some pretty tall drilling, 
by Judas! Come, fallin, men! Attention! Shoulder arms! 
[Zhe Dutchmen all form on L. H.] 
‘Pandersplocken. Schenck has got my place. 
Schenck, I was next to Vandersplocken. 
[The girls all laugh at the Dutchmen.] 
Hemlock. Say, gals, if you don’t shut up your mouths, [ will dismiss 
the whole corps, and fine you pretty tall, by Judas! (Girls laugh 
very loud.) Shut up your twitter-boxes, or I'll fine you, by Judas ! 
Schenck. (u. H.) Come, men, mind and march good. 
Hemlock. Shoulder arms! Forward march ! 
[The Dutchmen cross and march all ways.] 
Hemlock. Stop! stop! Hold on! If the enemy appear, the Kyd 
or the devil. [The Dutchmen crowd around HEMLOCK. ] 
Sehenck. (1. 0.) We don’t fear dem, nor de vitch. Ve vill shoot 


-her with a silver pullet. 


Enter Evrsy from R., 8 E., comes down C. 


Elpsy. Out, yehounds! (Music. All run but Hemtock. The 
girls scream, and run around into the house. The Dutchmen fall 
down over one another, and finally exit in house. Eupsy goes to the 
door and knocks with her staff.) Ho, there, Jost, give me some ate! 

Hemlock. Well, she’s too ugly to drink. Ifshe’s not the devil’s 
wife, she ’s his widow. 

Elpsy. Will he never come? [ Gun fired. ] 

Dutchmen. (In house.) A sail! a sail! 

Hemlock. Yes! and, by Judas, ’tis the Kyd ! 


All the Dutchmen enter from house. 


Schenck. °T is the Ger Falcon. 

Omnes. (Up staye and looking of ) No; *tis the Kyd. 

Schenck. (Coming down t. 0.) I shall go home and lock up my 
wife, 


[Jost Srort enters from house with jug of ale. Dutchinen clear stage.] 


Sioll. Come, neighbors, don’t go yet. The king’s ship is coming. 


20 CAPTAIN KYD, OR THE WIZARD OF THE SBA, 


Her crew will come to my house. Here is your ale (to Eupsy). You 
won’t mind if we have a dance? Come, girls. 4 


Girls reenter from the house. 


Hemlock. (t. H.) What would my sweetheart, Patience, say if she 
only knew I was dancing with these gals, with such short gowns on? 
It’s next door to going without clothes, faith! Jam away from 
Connecticut now, and I will have a pretty tall shave down, by Judas ! 


[ Music. Dance by Hemiock, Dutchmen and peasant girls. Enpsy 
has seated herself on gun up. stage, looking down the bay. At the 
end of dance the Dutchmen and girls. exit into house. Hemiock 
follows.) Ve 


Schenck. Come, Vandersplocken, I will go home and lock up my 
wife. | Lr 
Vandersplocken. Yes, and I will go home and get some schnaps. 

[Ezit, R., 1 £., taking their guns with them.] 
Elpsy. (Coming forward, oc.) ’Tis he! this is the day he said he 
would return. Now will I bring about that I have labored five long 
years to accomplish. His vessel has anchored — his boat has put for the 
shore. This night much may be done. Brave as he is wicked. Ha! 
he comes. 


[Music, Expsy retires, Lu. U0. E. Enter Ropert KyD, B. H. U. B., 
ina cloak. He crosses tot. H, EnPsy comes down t. H.C. She 
touches him. He seizes Eupsy by the throat, and puts a pistol 
to her breast.] 


Kyd. Ha! Elpsy, is it thou? What would you? 

Elpsy. The fulfilment of thy promise. 

Kyd. Have they come? " 

Elpsy. All; five weeks since. The ship that bore them is moored 
in the bay. All, even the lady of Lester. 

Kyd. I would see her, Elpsy. 

Elpsy. Thou hadst better not. 

Kryd. (rx. H.) Iam ready to fulfil the vow I made to thee a few 
months ago, in expectation of her arrival, and assert my claim to the 
title and rank of Lester. 

Elpsy. And to this title seek to annex that of the house of Bella- 
mont. 

Kyd. I have loved the maiden well. Never have I ceased to think 
of her; while I have been in the hottest fight, and blood streaming in a 
tide from hundreds of wounds, I thought of Kate and my early days. 
Elpsy, none, save you, know that I am not the true Lester ? : 

Elpsy. None. None know what I have done for. thee. Lady Lester, 
still mourns you for her son. 

Kyd. This Mark Meredith? 

Elpsy. Did not I prevent him going to Castle More, and send him 
to sea, where he was lost? 

Kyd. Can you prove his loss? 


£lpsy. His name appeared in every print, as one lost in a king’s 


ship that went down in a storm four years ago. 
Kyd. Then I am the only claimant. Yet he was a brave lad! 
Does Lady Lester know that you are here? 


CAPTAIN KYD, OR THE WIZARD OF THE SEA. 21 


Elpsy. And if'she did? Was I not tried, and no charge proved 
against me? Law cannot reach me, and man unaided by it dare not. 
I reign here; I raise the storm, I rule the wind! They fear me! 
Thou, the terror of the sea, the Kyd, whose name and blood are 
never separated, thou dost acknowledge my power ! 

Kyd. I do, Elpsy. 

Elpsy. Then woo Kate of Bellamont. 4 

Kyd. Ifshe will not listen to me? 

Elpsy. She will. I will take her with thee to thy vessel. Once 
there, thy will must be her will. I will never give thee rest, on sea or 
land, till thou art the acknowledged Lord of Lester! Go, when thou 
seest the light burning in yonder window. It is her chamber, When 
thou hast spoken to her, come tomy hut. See thou art with me at the 
midnight hour. 

Hemlock. (In house.) More gin! more gin ! 

Elpsy. Away, I hear a stir in the inn. 

Kyd. Iwill see her; then meet you at your hut. (Cross R. H.) 
Elpsy, beware how you deceive me! [ Exit, R.H., 2 E.] 

' Elpsy. I will listen. There may be danger brooding here against 
the Kyd. Who comes? 


[Enpsy retires. Hemiocx enters from house, drunk.] 


Hemlock. I thought so. I have got purty tall drunk, by Judas! 
When I’m drunk, I’m brave. Ill follow that witch, and I’ll see 
what she and Kyd have to do together. I’lltrap him. (Exrpsy ad- 
vances, R. Cc.) That Dutchman’s gin is as,strong as his daughter, and 
both play the divil with me— which is the way home? O! this way, 
by Judas ! 


[Etpsy has been up the stage watching, now comes down and stands 
R. 0. Hemiock is going off, R. H., 2 E., runs against Evpsy.] 


Elpsy. (Rr. H.) Hence, or I’ll curse thee! Follow me not, or 

dread the vengeance of the witch of Hell Gate! [Hvit, rn. w., 3 5.] 
Hemlock. Curse you! No! they must have put gin into my beer, 
and purty tall gin, too! Ill take myself up, and put myself into the 
watch-house for being drunk. (Staggers against wing, t. BH.) Look 
here ! when you see a gentleman coming you should stand out of the 
way ; if you had any politeness you would, by Judas ! 
[£xit, L. H.] 


SCENE Il.—A Street. The Walls and Gates of a City. 


Enter ScHenck und VANDERSPLOCKEN with guns, and smoking their 
pipes, 1 EB. RH. 


Schenck. ’Tis eight of the clock. *T is time ve vas off guard. Ha! 
Lhear something ! 

Vandersplocken. Vat you hear? eh? 

Schenck. Footsteps along the wall. No! hey! 

Vandersplocken. (u. u.) "Lis de-pigs ; and if it vash de peoplish, 
yot matter, so dey be inside ov te vall? 

Schenck. (R. x.) Ve lets nobody in, and ve lets nobody out. Vat 


22 CAPTAIN RED, OR THE WIZARD OF THE SEA. 


vas de password, Vandersplocken? I vas light my pipe vid de paper 
te captain left wid me. 

Vandersplocken. Vell, it is York. 

Schenck. Dat is not goot. It should be New Amsterdam. 


Vandersplocken. If de peoplish say one or de other, ve shall let 


them in. Eh? 
Schenck. Yes. Eh! te vitch ! te tyfle! 


[ Music. Enter Extpsy, t. o., 1 £. Scumnck and VANDERSPLOCKEN ga 


up to the gate inc. Sonenck presents the butt end of his gun, and 


VANDEBSPLOCKEN presents a bottle. 


Elpsy. (1. u.) Let me forth! Will ye notunbar, knaves? Are ye 
to keep watch and guard on a city’s gates? Unbolt! 

Schenck. (R. c.) Shall we let her go? 

Vandersplocken. (R.) Yaw! it vas petter to have her on de out- 
side, comrade. 

Schenck. So it vill. Ve has petter let her out. I vill see if she 
knows de vord. Vat ish de password, eh? 

Elpsy. J give neither password nor countersign. I go and come as 
I list, and no man shall hinder me. Stand aside ! ; 


[She strikes them with her wand, unbars the gate in C., and rushes 
through. } 


Schenck. Ve must let her go without the password. 

Vandersplocken. No, comrade ; ve shall be shot ! 

Schenck. And hanged, too! (They rush up to the gate. ELpsy 
closes tt in their faces.) The tyvil! It is locked inside ! 

Vandersplocken. And she did not say York? 

Schenck. No; nor New Amsterdam neider. There is no need of 
keeping guard, comrade ; nobody can get in. 

Vandersplocken. Thunder! no more dey can, hey ! 

Schenck. Tyfil! no! Ve vill go and get some schistam ! 

Vandersplocken. So ve vill, and some fresh pipes, too. 

[ They shoulder their guns and exit, R., 1 E.] 


SCENE III. — 4n old-fushioned Apartment, with centre windows and 
balcony. Handsome curtains at window, backed by moonlight 
waters, and the furniture of the apartment antique. A sofa, R. H. 
On the floor, R. c., a silk jlag, with a boar’s head, pierced with 
an arrow. Table and two Gothic chairs, iu. H. Handsome can- 
dlesticks on table. Kate discovered looking through the window. 


Kate. No, itis not he. Such was not the fashion of his sails ; nor 
does the flag of England fly from his mast-head, as it was wont to do. 
O, that he would return and relieve my anxious watchings! Yet, 
perhaps, this stranger may bring news of him. (Music. Karts takes 
up the flag and puts it on the table, 1. H. A silver arrow its thrown 
into the window. Karte starts and picks it up.) <A silver arrow ! 
What can it mean? ‘* Field of Archery, Castle Cor, May, 1694.’? Mer- 
eiful heavens! it is the same— whocan have done this! Whence 
comes it? °Lis Lester ! . 


[Kyp, after throwing the arrow, appears at lhe balcony.] 





2 Qe 


CAPTAIN KYD, OR THE WIZARD OF THE SBA. 23 


Kyd. Tt is Lester ! 
Kate. Stand, sir! Whoever thou art, approach no nearer, or I 
alarm the house! (Kyp has by this time come down, and is kneeling 


’ at her feet.) Robert of Lester ! 


Kyd. Tam he. 

Kate. Leave me, sir. 

Kyd. Dearest Kate — 

Kate. Robert of. Lester, I bid you leave me. Your presence is an 
intrusion, sir! 

Kyd. Have you forgotten, Kate, how we have rambled, entwined in 
each other’s arms, as we walked along the shore of Castle Cor ?—— how 
we loved one another ? 

Kate. Robert ! Robert ! 

Kyd. Will you spurnhim? You have loved, and still love. 

Kate. Hold! I love thee not! A maiden may once love, and, find- 
ing she has loved unworthily, hate. 

Kyd. Dearest Kate, at one moment terror is depicted on your face ; 
at another, tenderness. It could not be thus if your scorned me. 

Kate. Robert, I cannot listen to you! °*T'is dangerous if—ifI did 
love thee still! Thy crimes — 

Kyd. Ha! do you know me? 

Kate. I do as the Kyd, the pirate Kyd. 

Kyd. (Fiercely.) Who told thee this? 

Kate. Elpsy. 

Kyd. When? 

Kate. Yesterday. 

Kyd. The foul fiend! I can no longer woo her as Lester! Ten 
minutes since, this false witch told me the lie! Werel the Kyd, am 
I the fiend that gossip makes me? 

Kate. Thou art no longer Lester. In thee alone I see the terrible 
Kyd. Shame! that a noble, for a light word spoken by a spirited 
maiden in anger, should thus have cast himself away ! 

Kyd. Thou dost yet believe me to be Lester ; but — 

Kate. I will hear no palliation. Thou didst leave me, therefore we 
are no longer aught to each other. 

Kyd. There was an insuperable barrier, a dark stain — 

Kate. Ino longer love thee, Robert ! and, if I did, crime on thy part 
has.placed between us a wall as high as heaven. 

Kyd. (Taking her hand.) Dear Lady Kate! 

Kate. Release my hand! and remember, when you fashion your 
speech, that you address Lady Catharine of Bellamont. 

Kyd. Do you believe the tales of crime men charge me with? still 
less the lies of that false witch ? 

Kate. Thou canst say nothing I will believe. He who told me thy 
cruel deeds is as thou wert once— the soul of truth and honor. 

Ayd. Who is this man of honor? 

Kate. A naval officer, who was taken prisoner in the Indian seas by 
a rover, and afterwards made his escape by stratagem. 

Kkyd. This rever was — 

Kate. Robert Kyd. 

Kyd. There was but one of rank ever escaped me. Know you an 
officer named Fitzroy ? 

Kate. Fitzroy? 


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24 CAPTAIN KYD, OR THE WIZARD OF THE SEA. 


Kyd. Ay, I said Fitzroy! Rupert Fitzroy. By the ‘rood, lady, 
there are the very initials’! - So this little pretty emblem can tell tales ! 
I see it all! (Sternly.) Woman, you know this Rupert Fitzroy 
well? 

Kate. You have no right to question, and I refuse to answer. 

Kyd. Solhave arival! Love for him, and not my crimes, leads 
you to scorn me thus. © A proper youth, that you are ashamed to own, 
— perhaps the fisher lad,—has taken my place. I have heard he 
took to the seas. *: 

Kate. Heno longer lives. If he did he were worthier than thou. 

Kyd. You love Fitzroy? 

Kate. I do. si f 

Kyd. Then, by the heavens above, thou shalt repent thy love! and 
he, crossing my path, ere the sun that shall rise to-morrow be a month 
older (seizes the arrow out of Katx’s hand), you and yours shall curse 
the day you ever braved the power of the pirate Kyd ! é 

[£xit Kyp, Lt. v.J 

Kate. Stay ! Lester, stay! Elpsy’s words are ringing in my ears !_ 

Lester a pirate! a gibbet his doom! Father, help ! Father! Rupert ! 
[ Staggers up to the balcony, and faints on sofa.) 


SCENE IV.—A Rocky Landscape. Night. 14. 


Enter LAWRENCE, CARL, and four pirates, L. H. 


Lawrence. (s.c.) I wish the captain would hurry along a bit! 
Some blundering Dutchman will see our boat. They are so fond of 
firing off their guns on the fort. 

Carl. (x. H.) He does a deal of shore cruising. What’s in the 
wind ? 

E:awrence. A petticoat. Didn’t we run down the coast of Ireland — 
twice to bring her away at night ; and wasn’t we chased off by a fleet 
each time? If our craft had n’t legs like a race-horse, we should have 
been in Execution Dock, every mother’s son of us. 

Carl. He won’t let us go ashore for a frolic. 

Lawrence. Griffen swears he will go, and I don’t see why we could 
not have a dance at Jost Stolls. We have money enough, and what is — 
the use of it if we can’t spend it? am 

Carl. 80 I say. (Footsteps, R.u. Car goes to wing, R. H., and 
looks off.) I hear a step. : 

Lawrence. (Crossing rR. H.) Who goes there? oe 

Kyd. (Without, x. wu.) The silver arrow. 

Lawrence. Advance! *Tis the captain. 


Enter Kyp, n., 1 &., enveloped in a cloak. 


Kyd. 80, Lawrence, you are on the alert. You should he so, for 
we are surrounded by enemies. You must learn to challenge lower, 
under the guns of the fort. The Dutch warriors are full of bustle, 

Lawrence. I always laugh at these Dutch warriors. They touch 
off their-pieces with their pipes. Their powder smells more of tobacco 
than sulphur. , 





* CAPTAIN KYD, OR THE WIZARD OF THE SEA. 25 


Kyd. Truce to this jesting ! Get the boat from under the rock. 

Lawrence. (ut. c.) What course now, captain? 

Kyd. Towards Hell Gate. 

Lawrence. Come along, boys !— 

Kyd. There is a prying fellow dogging my steps from the river. 
Keep your eye upon the shore as we go along. I go to get a charm 
that shall protect us all from the king’s cruisers. (Hait Lawrence, 
Car, and pirates.) Rupert Fitzroy to have Kate Bellamont? No, 
by heaven! Rather than see her the wife of another, my own hand 
shall take her life; I might have done it. Yet Elpsy said, a better 
way would be to ensnare her on board my vessel ; that de my plan — 


perhaps this night, ay, this very night ! 


[Music. Exit, Kyp, t. a.,15.] 


SCENE V.— Half dark. Interior of the Witch’s Hut, composed of 
rocks, trees, old boats, §c., on R. B. flat, an invisible transparency 
of the pirates boarding the Ger Falcon on the u. H. flat. Another 
transparency of a pirate hanging on. a gibbet, both to be lighted up 
at the end of the act. In the c. a cauldron. A spinning-wheel, 
painted red, R.H., with red yarn onit. Two seats on stage. 4 
skull, with a thigh-bone fastened to it for a ladle. Skeletons and 
skulls around the stage. Cotton batting, wet with fluid, to light for 
incantation. The trap to be masked in with a crocodile ; a serpent 
to twist arownd Expsy’s waist; another for her head, and two 
others for her arms. ] 


[ Music. Eupsy discovered. ] 


Elpsy. Chance has done much to aid me in my great schemes. But 
for chance, since we parted in Hurtel’s tower, I might not have seen 


him more. To bury his ill-gotten gold he passed my hut ; since then 


Ihave him in my power ; crime has made him fear me ; for him I have 
prepared the rites. I know Kate will refuse him. I would not have 


her wed with honor to herself; I would have her humbled. Never 


shall I rest in my grave or out till he is Lord of Lester, and Kate of 
Bellamont his wife. 
Kyd. (Without.) Wo, there, Elpsy ! 
Elpsy. 
Enter, mortal, if thou bear 
Priest nor bible, cross nor prayer. 
[Music. Enter Kyp, through the opening c., down L. u.)} 


Kyd. Tam here ! 

Elpsy. Welcome, metal I have waited for thee. Kneel ! 

Kyd. Wherefore should I kneel ? 

Elpsy. To swear. 

Kyd. The oath? 

Elpsy. To assume the title of Lester, and wed the heiress of Bella- 
mont. : 

Kyd. Without thy aid I have sworn that —I have seen her ! 

Elpsy. And she has scorned thee ! 

Kyd, Shehas. Foul witch, thou didst betray me to her ! 

Elpsy. Thou hast learned this of her, ha! ha! ha! I told her 
who thou wert, that she might scorn thee ! 


26 CAPTAIN KYD, OR THE WIZARD OF THE SEA. 


Kyd. Dost thou not wish me to marry her? 
Elpsy. Yes; but only against her will. 


Kyd. Otherwise she never will. I will not bear the haughty scorn — 


with which she has received me. Witch, I am ready to take the oath. 
But, if [ take it, thou shalt give me thy aid in avenging myself. 

Elpsy. On her? 

Kyd. Yes; but through her lover. 

Elpsy. Has shea lover? Who is he? 

Kyd. Thine art should have told thee this — a Captain Fitzroy. 

Elpsy. He who commanded the ship that brought them hither. 
(Aside.) Where were my wits not to suspect this? I have seen him, 
Robert. Did she confess her love ? , 

Kyd. She did. J have sworn to see him and cross blades with him. 
I claim of thee to exert thy skill and art to aid me in success of my 
revenge. {am told thou hast an amulet, which, worn on the bosom, 
gives him who wears it a charmed life, and causes him to prosper in all 
his undertakings. This amulet I ask of thee. 

Elpsy. First take the oath. Lay thy right hand upon the head of 
the serpent that binds my waist, thy left hand upon thy heart, and, 
kneeling, swear to obey me in resuming thy earldom and thy wooing 
of Catharine of Bellamont, and it shall be thine. 

Kyd. (Kneeling.) I swear it. 

Elpsy. On thy soul’s forfeit. 

Kyd. This I promise, on my soul’s forfeit. 

Cusha. (Under trap, R. tT. B.) On thy soul’s forfeit ! 

Kyd. Woman, what has thou caused me to do? 

Elpsy. No evil, so thou break not thy oath. 

Cusha. (Under stage, u. H.) Break not thy oath! (R. 7. B.) 

Kyd. Sorceress, I will not break my oath! I have yielded to thee, 
now yield tome! If thou wilt give me the amulet, and put thy arts 
to work, and send me prosperous winds, I will, ere the month end, hold 
this Fitzroy my prisoner ; and then, by the cross, in my very cabin shall 
he witness my bridal ! 

Elpsy. ’T is well — go. | 

Kyd. The amulet. 

Elpsy. Thou shalt not have it. 

Kyd. Give it me, or I will wring thy shrivelled neck for thee ! 

Elpsy. Lay thy finger on me, and thy arm shall be palsied forever. 
Thou shalt not wear it ! ; 

Kyd. I will, if I tear it from thee by violence ! 

Elpsy. Then ’t will do thee no good. Thou shalt have it but with 
the rites. 

Kyd. Give it me, with every hellish charm thou canst invent, to 


accomplish my aims. Now for the future I neither care nor fear. Give 


me the amulet. 

Elpsy. I obey! Slave, appear! (Trap bell. Music. Etpsy 
waves her wand, and Cusua rises through the stage. Kyp views him 
with horror.) Kindle the magic flame! [Gong. Music. CusHA 
with his torch lights the fluid in the cauldron. Expsy sits at the wheel.] 

Elpsy. (Whirling the spindle.) 

Turn the spindle ; 
Mortals ask, 

A web of proof 

From the charmed roof , 





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CAPTAIN KYD, OR THE WIZARD OF THE SEA. 27 


A bleeding lock 

Of the victim’s hair 
Given to earth, 
Sea, sky, and air. 


[Music. Expsy breaks the thread, rises from her seat, and advances 
towards Kyp, t. H.] 


yte Elpsy. Kneel, mortal, kneel, and let me sever 
PSY The pledge that makes thee his forever. 


[Music. Kyp kneels. Expsy takes a dagger from her bosom, and 
twines her fingers in a lock of Kyv’s hair, and holds the dagger 
above his head.] 


Elpsy. Dost thou believe, Robert Kyd, Robert Kyd, 
Nor earth, nor air, water, nor fire, 
* Ball, nor steel, nor mortal ire, 
My potent charm, have power to harm 
Till it fulfils its destiny ? 


, Kyd. (t, u.) Ido. 
Elpsy. 
I take the seal, I take the pledge, 
That soul and body thou engage ; 
When thy master calls for thee, 
Ready, ready thou shalt be. 
Kyd. Iwill! 


[ Music. Expsy cuts off the lock of hair with her dagger, Kxp kneel- 
ing. Expsy goes up and stands behind the cauldron and com- 
mences dividing into four parts. } 


Elpsy. (Music.) Prince of Air, take the pledge. 
\ (Throwing into the air. Wind and rain.) 
h (Music.) Prince of Earth, take the pledge. 
= (Throwing it to the ground. Gong, thunder.) 
(Music.) Prince of Sea, take the pledge. 
(Throwing tt into the cauldron. Gong, thunder, rain, lightning.) 
(Music.) Prince of Fire, take the pledge. 0 
(Throwing it into the fire. Loud crash of thunder, gong, lightning, 
rain, wind.) 
Kyd. (Rising with terror.) Sorceress, avaunt! I will no more of 
this ! 
Elpsy. Now, the lead. 
[Ready trap-bell. Cusita puts the leaden bullet in the skull.] 
Elpsy. 
Fire and water, perform the task, 
i > A charméd life a mortal asks. 


[Music She puts bullet into the cauldron, and stirs it up with the 
: skull ladle. Thunder, rain, wind, gong, and all kinds of tmmor- 
tal noises. Stage dark.) 


Kyd. (Aghast and horror-struck.) Merciful heavens, protect me ! 
[R. t.B. Trap sinks with CusHA.] 

Elpsy. Fool! by that word, thou hast taken from the charm one 

half its power! It will protect thee from ball, but not from steel ; 





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28 CAPTAIN KYD, OR THE WIZARD OF THE ‘gua. 


from earth and fire, but not from riser and air; else, with this am 
against thy heart, thou wouldst bear a charmed ‘life. ’ 
‘Kyd. *Tis nothing lost. If ball can harm me not, a strong ar m, 


ai 


quick eye, and faithful cutlass shall protect me against steel. thee hast 


Elpsy. I have. 
Kyd. More I ask not. Water can scarce drown me, sin 
is on the sea ; air I fear not. 
El psy. Take heed, lest one day thou i not in it! 
Kyd. Ha! what mean you? ae 
Elpsy. Kneel, while I hang this amulet about thy sie ¢ ae 
[Kyp kneels. Expsy places the amulet about his nec ke. +] : 
Mortal! naught can injure thee 5 
Spread thy sail, and sweep the sea ; 
Vengeance now is in thy hand, S 
Be thy foe on sea or land. i 


If the oath be kept not well, 
Behold the ill, and guard the spell ! 


{[Music. Stage dark as possible. Gong. Kyp rises and goes % 


cor. Expsy, Rr. cor. The transparency on BR: 4H. flat is lit 
showing the Ger Falcon and the pirate ship is S| ba 


Kyd. I laugh at danger such as that ! 


[Thunder. Kvn crosses tor. u. Expsy takes the stage, L. H.C 


The transparency, L. U. flat, is lighted up, showing a man | 
ing on a gibbet.] 


Kyd. Ha! what doI see? Witch! hag! what i is that? .s 
. Elpsy. The pirate’ 8 doom ! 
[Music. Expsy is pointing towards the trinipanaeeeae 

stands aghast with horror. Gong. Thunder, &c. §&c. The tran 

parency ts kept lit up until the act drops. Quick a iF re 


Env or Act IL. 








ACT IIL—THE FIGHT. 





He bore a charmed life o’er earth and sea ; 
No fiend so feared, no spirit dread as he! 


SCENE I. — Cabin of the Ger Falcon, 1 @. 
Enter Captain Fitzroy, followed by Grace and Epwin, 8. H., 1 £. 


Fitzroy. Wet, Edwin, what do you make of the sail.? 

Edwin. They think it may be a merchantman ! 

Fitzroy. It may be a buccaneer! Craft of any sort are so scarce 
at this season, in these colonial seas, that the chances are three to one 
for a pirate! Is he standing south by east? 

Edwin. He is. 

Fitzroy. We shall intercept him by sunset, ifthe wind holds. Ed- 


_ win, methinks you are getting sad. This station does not suit your 


ambition. You would be an officer instead of a clerk. 

Edwin. No, sir; Iam content to be as I am, so I can be near — 
that is, 1 — 

Fitzroy. Pshaw, my fair youth! I know not what to make of 
thee ; thou hast some deep untold grief at heart. If it be a love secret, 
a tale of cruel maidens and broken promises, make me your confidant. 

Edwin. I have a tale of love, but not of mine. 

Fitzroy. I will hear it, and then tell thee if I think it thine or no. 

Edwin. There was once a noble maiden thaf loved a peasant youth, 
handsome and brave. The maiden was proud, and independent of 
spirit, and loved him for himself; for title, wealth, and rank she 
thought not of. 

Fitzroy. Generous creature ! and this humble peasant loved her in 
return. 

Edwin. No! 

Fitzroy. No! He was ignoble, indeed, and her love was ill 
placed. Poor lady! 

Edwin. Nay ; he loved another ! 

Fitzroy. Ha! was it so? Then I must pardon him! But did 
she tell him of her love? 

Edwin. Never ! € 

Fitzroy. Who was this village maiden, that supplanted her? 


30 CAPTAIN KYD, OR THE WIZARD OF THE SEA. 


Edwin. She was no lowly maid, but noble as herself ? 

Fitzroy. Did she love him in return ? 

Edwin. (Hesitating.) N ay ! not then. 

Fitzroy. Edwin, you are giving me my own history! You hang 
your head! What! is it J of whom you speak? 

Edwin. I gaveno name. Time went on, and her love grew, un- 
seen and unknown. She exerted her influence, and had him (for he 
took to the seas) elevated from rank to rank. At length he became a 
_ captain. Years elapsed and she had not seen him; still she heard of 

his gallant deeds, and rejoiced in her secret heart with all of the 
love — 

Fitzroy. And still she loved him? 

Edwin. Better and better; absence only increased her passion. 
She resolved to see him, and, unknown, to win his love, for she thought 
time had caused him to forget his first passion for the noble maid who 
had discarded him for his low birth.. The father of the maid was ap- 
pointed governor of a distant province, and this youth was appointed 
to command the vessel in which they were to embark. Love roused 
her fears ; she resolved to go in the same ship and be a check upon the 
renewal of his love. 

Fitzroy. Your story interests me. Do not pause. Go on. 

Edwin. She disguised herself as a page, and offered herself as his 
secretary. 

Fitzroy. This is a wondrous tale! Proceed. 

Edwin. She was received, and sailed with him. The maiden he 
had loved in youth he wooed and won. He had taken another name 
with his better fortunes. The disguised girl witnessed the progress of 
his love with a breaking heart. 

Fitzroy. She should | have made known her love, and it might have 
met return. 

Edwin, She could not, yet she could not leave him. 

Fitzroy. Had it been my case, I should have loved her for her 
devotion. Love begets love, and so does gratitude. ) 

Edwin. What if you loved another ? 

Fitzroy: Not while I loved another ; but if my love had met no 
return, my heart would have turned to this heroic maiden, whose love 
had led her in disguise to follow me over the sea. 

Edwin. Wouldst thou have done this ? 


[ Enter KEnarD, R. H., 1 £.] 


Kenard. The strange sail has suddenly changed her course, and 
is standing towards us. 

Fitzroy. What do you make of her? 

Kenard. Her hull has lifted and shows a tier of ports, a red vit 
around her bends, polacre-rigged, and courses up, with a bow as 
sharp as a canoe ? 

Fitzroy. ’Tis the Kyd! Hoist the ensign, Kenard, and be ready 
to pitch a shot from the weather bow-gun across her fore-foot ! 

Kenard. We will be ready for him, sir. Shall I give orders to 
double-shot the gun? Always be ready ! that’s my maxim. 

Fitzroy. I will goon deck and give the necessary orders myself. 


CAPTAIN KYD, OR THE WIZARD OF THE SEA. 31 


Edwin, you stay below during the action. Kenard, stay here till I 
return. [Exit Firzroy, Rr. m.] 

Edwin. Shall we have a fight, Kenard? 

Kenard. 1 hope so, if it is the Kyd! I long to carry him into York 
Bay. He’sadevil! Do you intend to stand by a gun? 

Edwin. 1? Yes; though a battle on the sea must be a dreadful 
scene ! 

Kenard. Dreadful? The best thing in life! Nothing does me so 
much good as to hear the iron rattling among the rigging, and smell 
the smoke of burnt powder! Our captain will do this pirate’s busi- 
ness for him, Il warrant you! 

Edwin. I was once in a battle, but I can’t realize the scene. 

Kenard. You are too young, and it’s no use to tell you about our 
craft ; she is a tight craft for oneso gayly painted, — something like a 
woman that don’t look as if she could bear much rough weather, but 
after the first of the gale has washed off her gingerbread-work, she ’Il 
outride a storm that a liner would be glad to get rid of. 

Edwin. I hope no ill will happen to Fitzroy — Captain Fitzroy. 

Kenard. He’s a true sailor, like me, and never hopes to die on the 
land. Bury me, if I must die, in the deep sea ; let the green waves, 
that knocked me about when living, cover me when dead. Let me be 
buried where the ripples of driving keels are heard, and the song of the 
sailor shall be my requiem. 

Edwin. You are eloquent. 

[ Boatswain whistles ready. Waind.] 

Kenard. AmJ? Hark! The wind is rising ; ’tis going to blow! 
That pirate don’t mind a storm no more than a Dutchman does tobacco 
smoke. He ’d scud through any storm like the Flying Dutchman ! 

Edwin. I hope ’tis not the Kyd. There is no honor in fighting 
with a pirate, and more danger than with another craft. 

Kenard. Yes, young man. 

Fitzroy. (Without, x. u.) Kenard, come on deck. Let Edwin 
bring up my glass. 

Kenard. Ay! ay! sir. You hear, youngster? Come along. 

[Exit KENARD, R. H.] 

Edwin. I will obey. Heaven preserve him through all dangers ! 
I will not leave his side ; the blow that reaches his heart must first 
pierce mine. Rupert, do I not love thee? [Exit EpwIn, R. H.] 


SCENE II.— Cabin of the Silver Arrow, 1 G. 
Enter Rosert Kyp, followed by Turt11, 1. Hy, 1 &. 


Kyd. My hour of revenge is near. Turill, you resigned your com- 
mand to me. Though second in command on board of the Silver 
Arrow, you are in my confidence. I have a charm against all danger 
from this vessel in the distance. 

Turill. Well, captain, that ’s what I want to know. You seem to 
steer as if you were in chase. I have not asked the cause ; suppose 
you give us sailing orders ! 

Kyd. The man at the wheel has orders how to steer. 

Turill. He has? 


$2 CAPTAIN KYD, OR THE WIZARD OF THE SEA. 


Kyd. You remember Fitzroy, of the British navy, whom we ¢ap- 
tured in the Mediterranean. 

Turill. Ido 5 a proper youth for 1 woman’s eye. 

Hyd. One woman’s eye he shall never see again! That man has 
crossed me in my love. He is master of the brig-of-war sent out in 
quest of us. Three days ago a vessel, answering the description of the 
Ger Falcon, was becalmed off the Capes of Delaware. ‘The Silver 
Arrow is now on his track. When we meet, my revenge will be grat- 
ified ! Pin 

Turill. This is a king’s ship. 

Kyd. At long shot we shall stand no chance with him. We must 
run on board at every hazard! If he sinks the Silver Arrow along- 
side, we must fight hand to hand. (Speaking off Rp. .) Call down 
the men not on duty ! 

Lawrence. (Without, rn. uw.) Ay! ay! sir. 

[Boatswain whistles, R. H., 2 E.] 

Kyd. And you, Turill, look to the working of the ship. 

[ Whistles again, R. H.] 

Turill. I will, sir. Shall I send up the black flag ? ; 

Kyd. Yes, and let the Silver Arrow be emblazoned on it. Show 
this Fitzroy that Kate of Bellamont is the prize that urges me on to 
my revenge. 


Enter Cart, Evans, Lorr, LAWRENCE, Pirates and Hemuoce. They Ee? 


form a circle around Kyp. 


Kyd. Now, my brave men, a king’s ship sent to carry us in chains 
to England, is in sight, and of more than equal strength! You have 
never failed me ; will you now? 

Lawrence. No! long live the Kyd ! 

[ The pirates give three cheers. } 

Hemlock. I s’pose, if I’m in Turkey, I must do as the Turkeys do. 
So, long live the Kyd, by Judas! 

Kyd. What strange voice is that? 

Hemlock. (Crossing to ¢., goes up to Kyp.) It’s mine, Horse- 
bean Hemlock, of Connecticut, late of New York and now — 

Kyd. How came you here, on board the Silver Arrow? — 

Hemlock. Well, Ill tell you: I was trying to get a chance to see 
how you managed things. I got on a pretty hard train, and, on the 
night you went to the witch’s hut, I followed you, and hid in the big 
boat, and you started off in such an all-fired hurry, I could n’t get 
out, by Judas ! 

Kyd. Did you think, foolish man, to ensnare the Kyd—he that for 
five years past has baffled human cunning or mortal power? I know 
your business ; now become one of these, or you walk the plank ! 

Hemlock. Well, I have stuck my nose into a pretty scrape! Well, 
Mr. Kyd, I believe I shall do just about as you want to have me, by 
Judas ! 

Kyd. A vessel is now approaching us. The black flag is nailed to 
the mast. Swear to be with us in battle till victory is ours, or death, 
and you are safe. 

Hemlock. Ido! I swear it, by Judas ! ( Aside.) That an’t a yery 
bad oath. 


“raze 


7 


CAPTAIN KYD, OR THE WIZARD OF THE SEA. 33 


Kyd. Lawrence, take cherge of him. Now, my brave fellows, for 
the attack! At my signal throw yourselves on board. Flesh your 
blades in the carcasses of these hounds of justice! Give no quarter to 
beards, but spare bright eyes. Remember, strike not a woman, or 
dread the vengeance of the Kyd! Te the deck! to the deck ! 


[£xit Kyp,t.u.,18. Pirates give three cheers and exit, x., 1 £.] 


Hemlock. If I am taken I shall be hanged with the rest of the 
pirates! 'There’s no dodging cannon balls, by Judas! What shall I 
do? (Dark stage. Shout, R. un.) That don’t sound like old Hem- 
lock. (Atlempts to sing.) O, dear, if I am obliged to live in this 
place all the time, I shall die by inches, and, as I am not the smallest 
among creeping things, I shall die a long death ! 

Enter Turict, L. H. 


Turill. I want you on deck. 
Hemlock. What for? 
, hee There is a king’s ship bearing down for us. You must 
ght. ; 

_ Hemlock. Which is the easiest way to die, to be cut in two with a 
cannon ball or to be frightened to death? For it seems to me one of 
em [ ’ve got to take. 

Turill. Easiest always to die bravely. 

Hemlock. Did you ever try it? 

Turill. No. We have no cowards on board of the Silver Arrow. 
I’ll place you at my gun, and, if you show fear, I 711 ram you into it, 


and send you on board of the king’s ship in a hurry. 


Hemlock. I should n’t like that, by Judas! I think Ill try the 
being frightened to death first, and if that don’t do I can be shot after- 
wards. 

Turiil. Come! to the deck! The men are now serving out the 
grog. I shall keep an eye on you. 

Hemlock. I shan’t goto meeting next Sunday, I’m afraid. O! 
what would Patience Beanpole say, if she knew I was on board the 
vessel of Kyd ? [ Gun fired, BR. H.] 

Turill. Ah! the sport’s begun. I must be on deck. Come! 

[Exit Turi, L. u., 1 E.] 

Hemlock. Sport! O, dear! catching codfish or selling tin-kitchens 
is better sport than this, by Judas ! 

[Two guns fired, R. u.H. TWeEMLocK runs off, L. H.] 


SCENE IIl.— Deck of the Ger Falcon. Masts, sails, §&c. 
Shrouds practical on both masts. Hatchway grating. Capstan. 
A raised poop, R.H. Four guns on deck, withthree barrels in each, 
and loaded. A gun on poop deck, with two barrels, loaded. 
Boarding-pikes and cutlasses in racks arownd the masts, §c. 
Wings clear off at back. Sea-cloth down back by dark horizon. 
Men at different stations. Some in the shrouds. Kunarp mid- 
ships. Men loading guns. Fitzroy on poop deck, with glass. 
EpwWIn near him. 


Fitzroy. Stand by me, men—ready! (Sailors descend from 
shrouds.) Kenard, point a gun, and disable his bowsprit. (Krnarp 


34 CAPTAIN KYD, OR THE WIZARD OF THE SBA. 


aims and fires. Sailors re-load the gun.) can see their leader’s 
face, Edwin, go below. Your station is not here. 

Edwin. I will not leave your side. 

Fitzroy. As you will, then. Men, your lives depend upon your 
retaining your ship. Do not forget you are fighting for your sweet- 
hearts and wives ; that your foes are bloodthirsty buccaneers, who 
fight from desperation, and show no mercy. 

Kenard. Heis going to run us on board. (Gun fired, R. UE.) 
Stand by, Grenaders ! 


[Music. The Silver Arrow appears, R. v. E. Shouts on board of 
both vessels. The Silver Arrow fires. Kyp is seen on the bow 
waving his sword. ] 


Kyd. Fitzroy, surrender to the Kyd ! 
Kenard. Shall we answer him? 
Fitzroy. Grenaders, ready ! 
Kenard. All ready. 

Fitzroy. Cast. 


[Pistols fired Rn. and t. Music. Men discharge hand grenades. 
The Silver Arrow shoots off, L. H. U. E.] 


Kenard. He’san old hand, sir. His helm was hard np too soon. 
They all fell short. 
Fitzroy. Give him your guns, 


[ Music. The Silver Arrow fires. The firing kept up 99 board of 
the Ger Falcon. The Silver Arrow appears again, b. U. Bo 
Strikes the brig and falls off, her mast crippled. ] 


Ryd. (Standing on the bow of Silver Arrow.) Our ship is sink- 
ing! On board the king’s ship, men, on board! (Music. Pirates 
board the brig. The pirates and sailors engage. After a struggle the 
pirates drive the English sailors aft, Rr. Hu. The Silver Arrow is 
seen to sink. Kyp is standing on the bulwarks of the Ger Falcon. 
The pirates ut. u. Firzroy and Epwin on poop.) Farewell to thee, 
brave galley! Now, my boys, we have no vessel but this! Five 
minutes will tell whether it belongs to his majesty or the Kyd. On, 
then ; but spare that boy and the captain. 


[ Music. General engagement. Krnarp and Turi. Pirates and 
sailors. Frirzroy meets Kyp, oc. Lawrence and Carn rush 
between them. End of combat. Kyp leaps on gun, tL. u. Fitzroy, 
R. GC. Epwin on poop deck.] 


Edwin. The guns are loaded with grape on the quarter deck. 
Fitzroy. Every Englishman throw himself upon the deck! Fire! 
[Hnglish sailors all fall on the deck.] 

Kyd. Down, men! down! (They do so. Epwin touches off the 
gun.) On!on! Thebrigis ours! (Music. General fight. Both 
parties. Kenanp and Kyo fight. Frirzroy among the pirates fight- 
ing. Hemuock enters during fight.) Dash at them, ye devils! 
Charge the quarter deck ; but touch not the two I have named for my 


game! (The crew of the Ger Falcon are overpowered. KypD on — 


the quarter deck. Meets Epwin. A combat, and Knwin ts disarmed. 


\ ee 


CAPTAIN KYD, OK THE WIZARD OF THE SEA. 35 


Fitzroy ts overpowered and brought to o. The same time Kyp dis- 
arms Epwin: Picture.) 

Keyd. (On quarter deck.) Clear the deck of the dead and wounded. 
I want no hospital of the brig. Put irons on that captain. 

Lawrence. Ay, ay, sir! 


[Pirates throw over the dead of both parties, LAWRENCE and Cart 
put irons on Fitzroy, who goes on quarter deck. Pirates set on 
guns, and some go off, L. H., ready to rush on with Cart, §c. 
Epwin and Kyp on poop deck.) 


Kyd. Griffin, prepare the plank. [Descends from deck.] 

Turill. You do not mean — 

Kyd. Tt matters not to you whatI mean. You have questioned my 
orders of late too boldly. Bring the brig to, and get out the plank. 

Turill. There has been blood enough shed. Ill do no more of it. 

Kyd. Ha! mutiny! 

TFurill. 1 will be a butcher no longer. 

kyd. Will you do your duty, sir? 

Turill. To work the ship, but not to take more life. 

Kyd. (x. c.) You are mad, Griffin! Jam master here, and my 
authority must not be questioned, even by you. JI would not take your 
life. (Touching the pistols in his belt.) You are not alone in this ! 

Turill. Lam not. I was master once. Ho, lads, a Griffin ! 


[Cart and six pirates rush on from t. H., shouting, and stand L. H. 
The other pirates are grouped about.] 


_ Kyd. To your post, men! Griffin, bring the brig to! 

Turill. Never! Now is ourtime! We have lost our vessel for a 
woman. [Six pirates draw their swords.] 

Kkyd. Back, dogs! Do you fear me singly? Stari where you are. 
(Kyp rushes on Turttt, and disarms him.) Cec to yourduty! I 
spare your life ! 

Turill. I never will do duty under Robert Kyd! Never! 

Kyd. Then go to the devil, with my compliments ! 

[Kyp shoots Turit1, who falls in the arms of Cart and Evans.] 

Turill. Kyd, you have saved me from the gallows. Your death 
will not be so noble as mine. 

[ Dies, and is taken off, t. u., by Cant and Evans.} 

Kyd. Now, fellows, to your duty! The first who falters shares the 
same fate! (The mutineers sheathe their cutlasses and retire.) 
Lawrenze, you are my lieutenant. Bring hither my victim! Pre- 
pare the plank. (Music. Cari and Evans bring on the plank and 
place it across bulwarks.) Now, Rupert Fitzroy, prepare todie! I 
will give you a free leap into the other world, as your blood is gentle, 
sir, and will set aside the hempen cravat from the yard-arm. Many a 
better man has gone to his account than Mark Meredith ! 

Fitzroy. (Starting and gazing at Kyp.) Wa! you know me, 
then? 

Kyd. Thou hast heard whether I do or not. 

Fitzrnay. Who, then, art thou? 

Kyd \tmatters not. You must die! The proverb saith ‘* There is 
but one step between this world and the next.’’ You will soon learn if 


86 CAPTAIN KYD, OR THE WIZARD OF THE SRA. 


it is true. The step is rather a wet one. But there is a fire, that 
priests prate about, will soon dry you. 

Edwin. Surely you will not be so inhuman as to do so foul a 
murder ! 

Kyd. Who is the blacker murderer, this man who robs me of my 
good name, or I who merely take his life? 

Fitzroy. I robbed you not of it. 

Kyd. Weare losing time. Lead him to his death. 

Fitzroy. Impossible! You will not carry out a suggestion so in- 
fernal ? 

Edwin. (Crosses to ¥.) Nay, you will not do such cold bloody 
murder. (Kneeling.) O! spare him, and I will be your slave ! 

Kyd. Will you walk to the gangway, or shall my men conduct 

ou? 

‘ Fitzroy. Farewell, Edwin! We shall soon meet beyond the skies ! 

Edwin. (Embracing Fitzroy.) Fitzroy, no! 


[Faints in Firzroy’s arms. Cart and Evans advance and take 
Epwin from Firzroy’s arms, and take him off, t., 2 £.] 


Fitzroy. Iam ready. 

Kyd. Perhaps you have a last request to make, — perhaps some 
maiden will ask how Fitzroy died? I17Il bear the message. Ere to- 
morrow night I shall see the peerless Kate of Bellamont. She ll love 


me for bringing it. I’ve had love favors on my own account of this - 


willing maid ere now. 

Fitzroy. Villain ! thou liest ! 

Kyd. Ask her when you meet hereafter in the other world, for you 
meet no morein this! Thou hast nothing, then, to ask? 

Fitzroy. I have one request. 

Kyd. Name it. 

Fitzroy. Take off ny chains, and let me freely spring into the 
grave you have destined for me. 

Kyd. Knock off his chains. (LAwrEncE and Cart take them off.) 
What else ? 

Fitzroy. This broad-sword. 


| [Seizes a cutlass from the belt of LAwrence. The pirates rush 
between K-yp and Firzroy.] 


Ryd. Notablow, men! Heis mine. I will tame him down ere 
long. (Music. Pirates retreat. Combat. Kyp disarms Firzroy, 
and he falls on one knee. Kyv’s sword at his throat.) I will not 
strike. Set upon him, men! Cut him to pieces! He is. yours! 
(Music. Kyp ascends the quarter deck. The pirates rush wpon 
Firzroy. Firzroy picks up a sword, strikes, and throws off the 
pirates. He mounts a gun and springs into the sea. The pirates fire 
their pistols at him.) Heisnomore! Henceforth I am the sole lord 
of Lester ! , 
[The pirates group about, and shout as the act drops. 


Enp. or Aot III. 


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He would then make the nearest isle, 
And go at night, by stealth, 

To hide within the earth a while 
His last ill-gotten wealth. 


SCENE I.— Water Landscape. 2a. Evening. 


Enter Karn, t.,1 £., meeting Fitzroy disguised as a fisherman, from 
ww, . he. 


Kate. Do you come to bring news of Fitzroy? 

Fitzroy. Lady, I am but a poor shipwrecked mariner ; yet I do 
bear sad news for thee. 

Kate. Of whom? 

Fitzroy. Fitzroy. He has been captured by a pirate, and made 
his prisoner. 

Kate. And his secretary, Edwin? Does he live? 

Fitzroy. Alas! I know not! 

Kate. O! that I had died ere this dreadful news had reached me! 

Fitzroy. Nay, dearest Kate, Iam here! It is Fitzroy who clasps 
thee to his breast ! 

Kate. Fitzroy? 

Fitzroy. None else, Kate ! 

Kate. How could you put me to such a trial ? 

Fitzroy. Forgive me! I planned it not. My brig was taken. I 
was condemned by Kyd to walk the plank. A fisherman rescued me 
from the sea. From himI borrowed this disguise, and was, at the 
moment, tempted to try your affection. 

Kate. Robert, poor Robert, to what height of crime has passion Jed 
thee! Thou wast my first, my only love !—Ha, Fitzroy, why is thy 
eye with fierce scrutiny fixed on me? [Frrzroy starts. ] 

Fitzroy. It has reached my ears, —how, it matters not, — that 
since my departure, you and this freebooter Kyd have metin private ! 
From his own lips there fell dark words of favor given and received, 
as — 

Kate. Fitzroy, cease! I have pledged my father to marry thee. I 
look upon thee as my husband. I will keep nothing from thee. 

Fiizroy. Do you not love me, Kate? 


38 CAPTAIN KYD, OR #HE WIZARD OF THE SEA. 


Kate. If I had never loved till now, I should love thee, Rupert, 
next to my life. The Kyd is—is Lester. He told me so himself. © 

Fitzroy. You have met, then? 

Kale. I have, Rupert. 

Fitzroy. He pressed upon thee his former passion ? 

Kate. Fitzroy, I will not be interrogated. My woman’s pride 
should rise in my defence, and meet with scorn the foul aspersion that 
lurks beneath thy words. I will excuse you. You are soured by the 
recent loss of your brig, and so I forgive you. 

Fitzroy. This is no answer, lady. This Lester, or Kyd, I well 
know, loves you. Thinking me dead, he will again press his suit — 
you do not hear ! 

Kate. I—I was thinking of Lester. 

Fitzroy. She loves me not! TI have been blinded by my own deep 
passion! His life shall pay me for my error. [Exit u,1£z.] 

Kate. Shall I see him again? Come, Rupert, I will go home. Do 
not yield to these moods of jealousy. (She turns and finds he has 
gone.) Gone! Am I dreaming? (£nter Epwin, R.,1 5.) Edwin 
Gerald, is it you? You, then, are safe? I congratulate you with all 
my heart. 

dwn. Tam safe, lady ; but — 

ate. You bring me news of Fitzroy’s death ? 

Hdwin. Did you believe such my message? I know not whether 
he lives or not. 

Kate. You were attached to him? * 

Edwin. I was. Now that he is no more, I have no longer reason 
for this disguise ; and here — 

Kate. Do nothing rashly, sir. If you were about to tell me he loved 
me, I can tell you he has told me so himself within this half hour. 

Edwin. How! Explain! 

Kate. He is alive, and well. 

Edwin. Alive! Thank Heaven! How was it? 

Kate. He was driven overboard, as you believed, but was saved vay 
a fisherman. He will rejoice at your escape. How was it, fair sir? 

Edwin. Kyd retained me to bear a message to his lady love. For 
this purpose I am landed now, and guided hither. Fitzroy, you say, 
lives ? 

Kate. Give me the letter! Wait but amoment. Perhaps I am 
wrong. I will read it. [ Opens the letter and reads. ] 


<* Dearest Kate: Let me see you for a brief moment by the lin- — 
den-tree that grows at the foot of the Roundel. Iam desperate. Re- 
Suse not this request, lest the guilt of my suicidal blood follow your 
soul. LEsTER.”’ 


I gaze upon the words till they seem composed of fire! Heaven 
guide me in this strait! My brain is crazed! The struggle is over ! 
I will meet him. (Zo Epwiy.) Return, and say I will come. 

[Exit u., 1 E.] 

Edwin. I shall redeem my oath and regain my liberty. O, Kate! 
Kate ! you do not know my heart ! [Exit n.; 1 EB] 


| —_ 


CAPTAIN KYD, OR TIIE WIZARD OF THE SEA. 09 


Enter Yirmiocn, r., 2 £., in haste. 


Hemlock. I’m on land again, by Judas! The Kyd will attack the 
town. I must go to Jost Stoll’s, and let the people know that I am 
about again. A pretty tall cruise I had, by Judas! If I haven’t 
seen sights of all sorts, sizes, and eolors, I don’t know! If I could 
only get into Kyd’s cave! I’ve written a song about him. Hell be 
hung some day. I’ve got his dying speech written already. 


[Song. Air—‘* My name is Captain Kyd,’’ and exit t., 1 E.] 
SONG. — Hemlock. 


Now, you captains, brave and bold, 
Hear my song, hear my song 3 
Now, captains, brave and bold, hear my song , 
As on briny seas you’ve rolled, _ 
O listen, captains bold, 
How [ plundered her for gold ; 
Hear my song, 
How I plundered her for gold, 
Hear my song. 


My name was Captain Kyd, 
As I sailed, as I sailed, 
My name was Robert Kyd, 
As I sailed, &c. 
My name was Robert Kyd. 
And so wickedly I did, 
All laws I did forbid, as I sailed, &v. 
I steered from sound to sound, as I sailed, 
I steered, &c. 
I steered from sound to sound, 
And many ships I found, 
R Them I burnt and run aground, 
As I sailed, as I sailed. 


I spied three ships of France, as I sailed, &c. 
I spied, &c. 

I made the captain dance 

On nothing ; then by chance 

On their wealth I did advance, as I sailed. 
A Spanish ship I met, as I sailed, 
And a lady fair did get, as I sailed ; 

Her lover then I slew, 

And of his heart I made a stew, 

Which I ma-ie her eat a dinner new, 

As I sailed, &c. 


IT had a rival once, as I sailed ; 
He proved himself a dunce, as I sailed ; 
“ He was sent to capture ne — 
Captain Kidd, upon the sea — 
f£ made hin) walk the plank particularly, 
As Dssiied, &e. 


Tie began fo raise a squall, a3 I sailed, 
De began, &e. 
Rut his courage i did fail, 
Tig feclingn Xt aia. mic! 
a Servea him pretty ton, 
As I sailed. 


40 CAPTAIN KYD, OR THE WIZARD OF THE SEA. 


O, a Yankee followed me, as I sailed, 
Ile wan’t skeered by piracy, as I sailed 5 
From him I got a shock, 
That will send me to the dock ; 
Hurrah ! shouted out. Hemlock, 
As I was nailed. 


we 


And now I write my life, as I sailed, 
And a letter to my wife, as I sailed ; 
I’m going to be hung, 
Although I am so young, 
And my life to you is sung, 
For I’m nailed. 


I revelled in blood, as Isailed. (Repeat.) 
I’ve caused tears to flow a flood, 
I’ve nipped beauty in the bud; 
My heart is black as mud, 
As I sailed, &c. 


Not half my deeds are told, as I sailed, 
I did do much for gold, as I sailed ; 
I cruised along New England’s shore, 
Where I murdered many more, 
And left them in their gore, 
As I sailed. 


SCENE II. — Dark Stage. Lendscape. The Linden-Tyee. 
Night, 1 a. 


Enter Kyp, i. u, 1 &.,. exveloped in a cloak. 


Kyd. ’Tis past the hour! The moon is mountains high in the 
heavens, and yet she comes nct! Cursed oversight in making that 
boy my messenger! He has told the tale of Fitzroy’s fate, and she ’Il 
not meet his murderer! Ha! a form! Hers in a thousand! Aid 
me, all good angels! (Enter Katr, nr. H., 1 £., enveloped in a man- 
tle.) Most kind, dear Kate, forgive the rude and angry haste with 
which [ last left you! You are, indeed, kind. My strong love told 
me my appeal would not be made in vain. ( Kneels.) 

Kate. (Retreating.) Let this distance be between us. You have 
desired me to see you. 

Kyd. Ihave. Is there no hope for me, Kate? 

Kate. How mean you? 

Kyd. Is there no hope of pardon for the penitent ? 

Kate. Heaven forgives the penitent ! 

Kyd. And will you be less indulgent? The seal I have lost is your 
heart. I would be replaced. 

Kate. Speak no more on that theme, or our conference is ended. 

[ Going, R. H.] 

Kyd. Stay; be not hasty. Nothing that is rumored against me 
has been proved ; and I bear the king’s commission against piracy. 

Kate. The more guilty thou, that, under ite cover, commit piracies 
till now unheard of. 

Kyd. ’Tis false ! 

Kate. I’ve heard enough. 1 cold tell thee more of & recent occur- 
rence. 

Kyd. Ha! has the boy told? 


Re. <4 


ied 


VAPTAIN KYD, OR THE WIZARD OF THE SEA. 41 


Kate. Nothing. I know nothing. Go on, slay and pillage. You 
have a love for human blood, and, like the wolf that has once tasted 
it, will taste no other. Glut thyself till thou art fully satisfied ! 

. Kyd. Kate! 
Kate. Away, sir! Speak not—come not near me! Thy touch, 
thy very glance, is pollution ! 

Kyd. By the cross, if thou wilt act the queen, then will I play the 
king! My letter to thee was but a hook cunningly baited. I knew 
you would snap at it. I have given thee time enough, and now will 
draw thee in a captive. (Seizes Kare.) 

Kate. Unhand me, Lester! Release me, and I forgive you ! 

Kyd. You are mine, proud beauty! I have been the plaything of 
your pride too long ! 

Kate. Unhand me, sir ! ad 

Kyd. Pardon me, if Iam somewhat rough. On shipboard I will 
atone for it. ‘ 

Kate. Heaven, then, has given me this in my hour of need! 


[Music. Snatches a pistol from Kyp’s belt, and, springing from 
him, levels it.] 


Kyd. Ha! ha! my pretty one, you do the heroine excellently ! 
Give me that pretty toy, sweet Kate. It becomes not a lady’s finger. 
[Advancing towards her.]} 
Fate. Back, sir, or I’ll fire! 
Kyd. Nay, then, I must risk it. [Advancing towards her.] 
Kate. Heaven forgive me ! 


[Kate jires. Kyp staggers back. A roll of drum is heard. Guns 
jired, and distant shouts, U. E. L. H.] 


Kyd. Ah! we shall meet again! Lawrence, to the boat ! 
[Kyp rushes off, u., 1 £. Report of gun, L. U. £.] 
Kate. Will he escape? 


Enter Firzroy, 8. H., 1 £. 


Fitzroy. Lady Catharine, why are you here? 
Kate. Ha! Fitzroy, you have come! I am glad to see you. 
have been insulted, and by Robert Lester ! 
[Distant shouts, L. U. E.] 
Fitzroy. Then you shall be avenged ! 
Kate. Do you promise it? 
Fitzroy. By the love I bear you, I swear it! 
Kate. Avenge me! Wipe out the stain my woman’s pride has suf 
fered, and I will be thy slave ! 
Fitzroy. I would rather that thou wouldst be my bride. 
[ Lakes her hand.] 
Kate. Rupert Fitzroy, touch me not, think not of love! When 
thou hast captured this freebooter — when I behoid him bound at my 
feet, so low that I can place my foot on his neck — then I will be thy 
bride ! 
Fitzroy. The Kyd shall die! I swear it! [Crosses L. H.] 
Kaie. Be sure you,keep your oath. 
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42 CARTAIN KYD, OR THE WIZARD OF THE SEA. 


Fitzroy. Or never will I see your face again. 

Kate. [am now calm. In the house is ‘the flag I have worked for 
you. It bears your initials, with the arms of my house conjoined. 
Take it, and beneath it win thy bride. You have heard me. The flag” 
is ready. Fitzroy, farewell! _ [Exit, Kate, R. H.] 

Fitzroy. Lovely lady, is there a way for me to win thy love? 
Grant, Heaven, that once again on equal terms I may meet this pirate 
Kyd! Despite the charm he wears, or name of terror rightly earned, 
his life is mine! I swear it ! 


_ Enter Hemiocxr, R., 1 E. 


Hemlock. By Judas! is it you, or not? Well, I thought you was 
food for fishes ! 

Fitzroy. Whence comest thou? 

Hemlock. From Kyd’s vessel. I was in the fight with your brig, 
saw the whole scrape, and wrote his dying spgech. Ill sing it to 
you. [Sings, ‘* My name is Captain Kyd,’’ &c.] 

Fitzroy. Do you know his intentions ? 

Hemlock. Well, I can guess them ! 

Fitzroy. Inform me. 

Hemlock. Well, his vessel, that is yours as was, is going through 
Hell Gate to sea, so as to avoid you in your vessel. They are going 
to bury their money, and the old witch is going to help’em. Then he 
is going to carry a lady on board, and sail on a cruise. 

Fitzroy. Part of this plan has already failed. Do you know where 
the witch resides ? 

Hemlock. Everywhere! Sometimes, on a broomstick in the air, 
I’ve seen her riding straddle ; I have, by Judas! and a pretty tall 
knot she was going, I tell you ! 

Fitzroy. Show me the cave, and I will reward you. On shore and 
on the water shall he be attacked. The citizens are already under 
arms. Will you assist us in a righteous cause? He dead, our 2 

will be safe. 

Hemlock. Yes ; I calculate it’s best to keep out of a fight when you 
can ; but if it comes! eternal hard shoving, then it ’s best to go into it 
purty tall, by Judas! I’ve made his dying speech, and divided it 
into verses, to sing to the gals. Ill give you an idea of it. I mean to 
sing it when I’m fishing. The music of it will make the cod bite 
purty tall, by Judas! You see, I’ve made it out that he was caught 
by me. [Sings.] 

Now to Execution Dock 

I must go, I must go. 

To Execution Dock I must go ; 
To Execution Dock, 

Found out by one Hemlock 


Horsebean, O, what a shock ! 
I must go, T must go. 


You see I made it out he wrote it himself. 
[Exit Firzroy, u. u., Hemlock following, singing.] 


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CAPTAIN KYD, OR THE WIZARD OF THE SEA. 43 


SCENE III. — Dark. 


Exrsy’s Hut, the same as Scene V., Act II. Music. Eupsy discov- 
ered over fire. Kyp enters through opening, ¢., down L, H. 


Elpsy. Welcome, Robert Kyd! I smell blood ! Thoe hast en at 
thy old trade. Hast thou had revenge? 

Kyd. Lhave! His vessel is mine ; him have I slain ! 

Elpsy. Did I not promise thee this? Now thou art come to do my 
_ will, and to fulfil thy oath. 

Kyd. I have seen her within the hour. 

Elpsy. And she has scorned thee ! 

yd. Yes! I tried love at first, but it would not do, caer 

Elpsy. You then tried force? 

Kyd. I did. 

Elpsy. And she is now in thy state cabin. 

Kyd. No; Iwas bearing her to my boat, when she drew a pistol 
from my belt, and shot me here. 

Elpsy. And she? 

Keyd. Fled like adeer. The town was in arms! I believe a score 
of balls struck my person. Yet they scemed to fall from my cloak like 
hailstones ! 

Elpsy. It was the amulet. 

Kyd. True, woman! Yet I was wounded by a pistol in this girl’s 
hand. Your charm has failed ! 

Elpsy. No! Did I not tell thee — if not, be it known thee — that 
ne’er devil wrought a charm woman may not undo! What wilt thou 
do now ? 

Kyd. Return to Ireland, and lay claim to the earldom. None will 
see in the Earl of Lester the outlaw Kyd. 

Elpsy. Bury your treasures here, and sail for Ireland. After thou 
art Lord of Lester, remove them. 

Kyd. They have cost much blood ! [Crosses R. Music.] 


Enter Cart, Evans, Lawrence, and Lorr, through c. 


Kyd. What means this alarm ? 

Lawrence. Weare surprised! The river is full of boats, rowing 
this way. They have taken possession of the brig. 

Kyd. Go, some of you, and prevent their landing ! They know not 
of this retreat. (Eau Evans and Cart, c. rR.) What is their num- 
ber? 

Lawrence. There are six boats, with twenty men in each, and along 
the shore numbers join them. 

Kyd. What! is the Kyd so formidable, then? [Going c.] 

Elpsy. Stay, Robert ; go not yet. 

Kyd. Face them! Each man fight for his life! Two men guard 
the entrance ! [£azit Lawrence and Lorr, ©. R.] 

Elpsy. Preserve the amulet, and you are safe. 

Kyd. Let them come ! 

Elpsy. Robert, I feel that fate is busy in this hour ! 


[Report of guns and shouts without, R. and L. H.] 
Kryd. Ha! they come. This is no place for me! (Voise of swords 


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and shots, R. u. E. Fitzroy runs on, 0., followed by Hemiocr, four 
sailors, Dutchmen, two men with chains, ScHENCK, VARDEN, VANDER- 
SPLOCKEN, and others. FITzROY comes down L.u. Kyp, rR. H. Hem. 
Lock at back, c.) What! does the sea give back its dead? (Gasping 
with horror on Fitzroy, and draws his cutlass.) Can it be? Speak 
I conjure thee, if thou art flesh and blood ! 

Fitzroy. Monster! this day shall terminate thy career of crime ! 

Kyd. Flesh or blood, I’11 have a bout with thee here for Kate of 
Bellamont. 

_ Fitzroy. Here, villain, for thyself, then ! [Muste. During the 
combat, Kyp loses the amulet. Kyp staggers and falls, R. H. cor.] 

Kyd. Strike. [Frrzroy is in the act of doing so. KATE rushes in 
from c. R., followed by Epwin. Kate rushes between Kyp and Firz- 
Roy. EpwIN gets down t. c. The men on the R. H. seize KyD, over- 
power him and chain him.) © ; 

Kate. (n. c. ) Save him, Fitzroy! Pirate as he is, vanquished, 
disgraced, he is my first, my only love ! 

Elpsy. (c.. To Kate,). Well done, maiden! (Zo Epwiy.) The 
fisher’s boy will do for thee ! . 

Fitzroy. (u. H.) Grace! and I— hi 

Grace. (u. c.) If you are the fisher’s boy. ' 

Kyd. (Rr. uH.) Kate, thy hand! Heaven forgive me — thats is — 

Elpsy. Robert, have I lived to see thee the gibbet’s victim? Die! 
[Exesy attempts to stab Fitzroy, whois t. Grace prevents her. The 
men seize Eipsy, and take back, c.] 

Elpsy. Robert, I am thy mother ! the fisher’s daughter ! the demon 
of Hurtel of the Red Hand! I disown you! [Music. Pirates and 
sailors rush on through C., fighting. The pirates are overpowered. 
During the conflict, Kyp breaks from the men, and rushes at Fitzroy. 
He is caught by the men, and dragged back, just as he was in the act 
of striking Firzroy with his chains. ] 

Kyd. That is the true Lord of Lester! [Music. Flourish and 
shouts. Kyp, R. H. cor., overpowered with chains. KATE, R. ©. 
Expsy in the custody of two sailors. GRacu, L. C., FIZROY, lL. H., 
Hemuock, t. cor. Sailors and Dutchmen in the back-ground, stand- 
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